With the on-and-off lava fountains, Volcanoes National Park guests have been treated to amazing views from a safe distance. However, NPS officials warn that volcanic activity can produce ...
Cinder cones are simple volcanoes that form where vents, or openings, spit out ash and lava. They can be cone- or oval-shaped, usually with a bowl-like crater at their summits. When a cinder cone ...
Lava is erupting from several volcanoes ... The Ring of Fire is the result of plate tectonics − giant moving slabs of rock millions of square miles across that can collide with or pull away from ...
Lava from Hawaii’s most active volcano created fountains that reached 700 feet (215 meters) Thursday during the latest ...
Hawaii’s most active volcano resumed erupting Wednesday after a weeklong pause. Kilauea began continuously releasing lava ...
Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano is shooting lava 700 feet into the air just months before the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory could be ...