Deep beneath Japan’s Kikai caldera, a massive magma reservoir is refilling 7,300 years after one of the most powerful ...

The volcanic formation, which sits underneath the 30-by-45-mile Yellowstone Caldera, is among the most studied on Earth due to its potential for a supereruption when a volcano ejects over 230 cubic ...

Volcanoes have cast a shadow over climate and history. Cold spurts after eruptions may have spurred famine, disease, revolts ...

A seismic survey under the sea south of Kyushu has found a large, partly molten body of rock beneath Japan’s Kikai caldera, and the researchers behind it say it is the same magma reservoir that fed ...

Prehistoric communities on the Japanese island of Kyushu lived through one of the largest volcanic eruptions of the Holocene ...

A new inventory of 463 explosive eruptions from 1750 to 2023, built for the CMIP7 climate model intercomparison, combines ...

Understanding what triggers large volcanic eruptions is crucial for hazard assessment, but the exact mechanism driving these eruptions is still poorly understood. The prevailing theory is that ...

Retrospective and scenario-based analyses at five volcanoes show how warning thresholds can balance precautionary costs ...

What if Yellowstone suddenly went from bubbling geysers and spectacular landscapes to the site of one of the largest volcanic eruptions in human history?

Population models suggest the Kikai-Akahoya eruption brought severe regional decline alongside continued growth on some ...

Large raindrops began falling like sleet on the evening of May 29 near the Kagoshima prefectural office, creating thick, dark streaks on a white rental car parked nearby.