Flights are currently unaffected. Volcanic outbreaks in the Reykjanes peninsula are so-called fissure eruptions, which do not cause large explosions or significant dispersal of ash into the ...

The good news is that because the top of the volcano is still 4,500 feet below the ocean’s surface, it poses no danger to people.

NASA’s Juno mission found Io’s biggest volcanic eruption ever. The explosion was stronger than all Earth’s power plants ...

An Icelandic peninsula experienced its fourth eruption since December with lava from a new volcanic fissure steadily advancing, though the eruption’s intensity had decreased, authorities said.

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The USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory spearheads Volcano Awareness Month each January on the Island of Hawaii. This year, in ...

Fissure eruptions typically dwindle to those at a central vent after a period of hours or days. Nyiragongo has a complex system of fissures, which extend from its summit crater all the way down to ...

so-called Plinian eruptions, but rather fissure eruptions, like bursting pipes. In 2002 the rupture happened a few hundred feet below the 11,385-foot peak. Nyiragongo has an intricate plumbing ...

The Icelandic Meteorological Office said in its latest update on December 3 that the lava flow from a fissure on the Reykjanes peninsula had been “constant for the past few days”. A timelapse ...

The areas were closed after the June 3 fissure eruption began near the volcano’s remote upper Southwest Rift Zone. Maunaiki Trail and Kaʻū Desert Trail past the Footprints Exhibit remain ...

This massive collection of basalt columns is linked to a volcanic fissure eruption. That's when a fissure in the Earth's crust lets the contents of a subsurface magma chamber out – with ...

The hexagonal basalt stones at Giant's Causeway were created by ancient volcanic fissure eruption Don’t worry! We don’t need to study volcanic landforms to predict possible eruptions here in ...