Volcano-related deaths in US rarer than lightning strikes. Christopher Ingraham The Washington Post. New lava vents continuedto open up on Hawaii's Big Island this past week due to the eruption of ...

Volcanoes across the country are beginning to wake up and erupt, and no one has a good explanation for why it's happening.

Volcanoes are rumbling as scientists monitor earthquakes at Washington's Mount Rainier and Alaska's Iliamna volcano.

Mount Rainier is an active stratovolcano 45 miles southeast of Tacoma and 60 miles south-southeast of Seattle. Its last eruption was "a light dusting of ash" in 1894, the USGS said in a report. Large ...

Indonesia alone accounts for more than 145,000 volcano-related deaths since 1500, more than half the entire database. The United States, by contrast, has seen just 708 volcano-related deaths.

The authors, from the University of Bristol’s School of Earth Sciences, compiled a database of all volcano deaths since 1500 AD that “contains 635 records of 278,368 fatalities.

Dutch tourist Sarah Tamar van Hulten fell while hiking with her friends on Mount Rinjani on Thursday — a day after another ...

In the first scenario, another climate-related event will happen during a volcano-related event, adding to the disaster. In the second scenario, climate change will directly trigger a volcanic ...

An official said the eruption near Reykjavik, the 12th in four years from the same volcanic system, posed no threat to people ...

The Danish Red Cross has launched a catastrophe bond for volcano-related disasters with the support of several financial firms, the groups said on Monday, adding it was the first of its kind.

Iceland’s volcanoes regularly attract big crowds. And it’s not just Indonesia where things can go horribly wrong. In 2019, 22 people, mostly tourists, died after a volcanic eruption on White ...