Lava Bursts from New Fissures on Hawaii's Kilauea Volcano
Fast-moving lava crossed a road and isolated about 40 homes Friday forcing at least four people to be evacuated by helicopter.
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Fast-moving lava crossed a road and isolated about 40 homes Friday forcing at least four people to be evacuated by helicopter.
Fissures, or cracks in the ground, are opening wider and wider by the day. The lush green jungle has become rotten, yellow vegetation.
Hawaii's Kilauea volcano has erupted from its summit, shooting a dusty plume of ash about 30,000 feet into the sky.
Two tiny dogs in Hawaii have been rescued after they were found trapped between a fence and the dangerous lava flows.
As if the catastrophic, home-devouring lava weren't bad enough, now residents have to worry about choking on sulfur dioxide.
The eruption of Kilauea in the Pacific "Ring of Fire" has experts warily eyeing volcanic peaks in California and along the West Coast that are also part of the geologically active region.
If Hawaii's Kilauea volcano blows its top in the coming days or weeks, as experts fear, it could hurl ash and boulders the size of refrigerators miles into the air.
After surviving earthquakes and molten lava, residents of Hawaii's Big Island now have new threats to worry about: steam-driven explosions, hazardous volcanic smog and acid rain.
It's a nightmare that Kelana Kealoha thought he had escaped when he fled the devastation of Santa Rosa for the lush greenery of Hawaii's Big Island.
Many of them grappled with uncertainty, not knowing whether their homes are intact or have been engulfed in lava.
Hundreds of anxious residents on the Big Island of Hawaii hunkered down Saturday for what could be weeks or months of upheaval as the dangers from an erupting Kilauea volcano continued to grow.
The Kilauea volcano sent more lava into Hawaii communities Friday, a day after forcing more than 1,500 people to flee from their mountainside homes.
After a day filled with hundreds of small earthquakes, a magnitude 5.0 temblor rocked the eastern side of Big Island Thursday, prompting concerns that Kilauea Volcano could erupt.
Mount Sinabung on the Indonesian island of Sumatra shot billowing columns of ash more than 16,400 feet into the atmosphere and hot clouds down its slopes on Monday.
Six volcanos in Iceland show signs of erupting but, since 2010, tourism has increased five-fold.
The Philippines' most active volcano spewed fountains of red-hot lava and massive ash plumes anew Tuesday in a dazzling but increasingly dangerous eruption that has sent more than 56,000 villagers fleeing to evacuation centers.
Indonesia's Disaster Mitigation Agency says as many as 100,000 villagers need to leave the expanded danger zone around the Mount Agung volcano on Bali, but that less than half that number have left
Vanuatu officials issued a mandatory evacuation of Ambae island, which is home to about 11,000 people, as Manaro volcano threatens to erupt.
Eruptions at the Colima volcano in western Mexico continued Saturday, forcing authorities to evacuate hundreds of people from the mountain's slopes.
A NASA spacecraft has found what appears to be an inactive volcano on the surface of the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
Twenty lucky fans will have the chance to be lowered 400 feet for the performance, which will be held inside the volcano's dormant magma chamber...
A remote and active volcano on Alaska's Aleutian Islands erupted, sending ash 20,000 feet into the air, scientists said.
Bay Area armchair geologists can watch Mexico's most dangerous volcano from the safety of their homes via webcam. Colima Volcano has been producing "explosions, glowing avalanches and pyroclastic flows."
An active undersea volcano off the Oregon Coast has apparently begun a new eruption -- an event which was predicted by two scientists months ago.
One of South America's most active volcanos erupted early Tuesday in southern Chile, spewing heavy smoke into the air as lava surged down its slopes, prompting authorities to evacuate thousands of people.
