1.2 million years ago: A major volcanic explosion forms a caldera in what is now the Jemez Mountains as the earth around the volcano collapses into the drained magma chamber. Over the next million ...

About 7,300 years ago, a volcano off Japan's Kyushu island unleashed what remains the largest known eruption of the Holocene, our current geological epoch. In a new study, researchers reveal how this ...

Near-constant activity continues on the volcano in Russia. Shivelyuch (also called Shiveluch), the most northerly active ...

We know very little about the processes that lead to a reeruption of supervolcanoes such as the mostly underwater Kikai caldera in Japan (pictured) and are therefore ill-equipped to make predictions.

Dhaka, May 6 -- Shiveluch, one of the most active volcanoes on Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula and the northernmost active volcano in the region, continues to show near-daily volcanic activity, according ...

The magma reservoir of the largest volcanic eruption of the Holocene is refilling. This Kobe University insight on the Kikai caldera in Japan allows us to understand giant caldera volcanoes like ...

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