The Axial Seamount is a miles-wide undersea volcano that towers more than 3,600 feet over the seabed. Though it last erupted ...

A string of volcanoes in the Pacific Ocean — known as the “Ring of Fire” — is the most active on Earth out of all volcanoes. Should a large-scale eruption happen, it could cause extensive ...

Yellowstone National Park, the Hawaiian Islands, and American Samoa are all landscapes formed by hotspot volcanoes. Hotspots are also found in Iceland, in the Afar region of Africa, and under the ...

When the Laki volcano erupted in 1783 in Iceland, it rained down so much sulfuric acid that it devastated farmland and wiped out half of all livestock. The next year, a full quarter of Iceland's ...

If all the world’s volcanoes erupted at the same time, Earth would face an unprecedented catastrophe, triggering massive lava ...

Video footage captured by Scott Malis during the volcano's 11th episode shows lava spewing out of Kilauea volcano and ...

"Three out of every four live volcanoes on Earth are here,” says National Geographic. “Almost all earthquakes happen here, too." The Ring of Fire is the result of plate tectonics − giant ...