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Kīlauea’s Latest Summit Eruption Sends 30,000-Foot Ash Plume, Triggers Park and Highway Closures

Top-tier alerts signaled airborne hazards to communities, with lava confined to the summit crater.

Réunion’s Piton de la Fournaise Erupts Again, Health Advisory Issued Over Volcanic Gases

Canary Islands Tighten Teide Monitoring After Rare Seismic Vibration Repeats

Lithospheric Drip Helped Green River Cut Through Utah’s Uinta Mountains, Study Finds

New Maps Show Tibet’s Crust Flowing as Weak Faults Guide Eastward Motion

Piton de la Fournaise Eruption Ends After Two Days on Réunion

Kīlauea Confirms 40th Summit Eruptive Episode With Hours of Lava Fountaining

USGS Confirms Two Minor Quakes in Southern New England on Wednesday

San Andreas Fault: Where It Runs and What the Risk Models Show

New Reports Reaffirm East African Rift's Slow Continental Split

Magnitude 6.2 Earthquake Strikes Offshore Northern Peru

Kīlauea Marks One Year of Eruption With 39th Summit Fountaining Episode Reaching 1,400 Feet

Peer-Reviewed Study Finds Iberia Is Slowly Rotating Clockwise

Vogtland–Bohemia Quake Swarm Rekindles With Four Felt Tremors, Up to Magnitude 2.7

Kīlauea Eruption Subsides After Unusual Three-Vent Outburst

Kīlauea Erupts Again With 400-Foot Lava Fountains in 37th Summit Episode

Ethiopia's Long-Dormant Hayli Gubbi Erupts as Ash Cloud Disrupts India Flights

Small 1.8-Magnitude Earthquake Recorded Near Kingston, N.H.

Kīlauea Erupts With Lava Fountains Soaring Hundreds of Meters

Kīlauea’s Latest Summit Burst Sends 1,100-Foot Fountains, Sets Record Effusion Rate