Simushir is part of the Kuril Islands, comprising 50 volcanic islands in the North Pacific Ocean. It stretches for eight ...

The 1980 eruption of Mt. St. Helens — which began with a series ... and steam exploded upward and outward to the north. The outward blast spread volcanic debris (gray in the images) over 230 square ...

The search spanned continents, but no known volcano fits in the picture. Until now. In a stunning revelation, a team of ...

If an eruption happens, it would likely occur at Crater Peak, shown in the background of this summit photograph. Over the past 12 months, an Alaskan volcano named Mount Spurr has become noticeably ...

In the summer of 1831, strange things began to happen in the skies over Europe and North America. The sun shimmered blue and ...

A forgotten 1831 volcanic blast on Soviet Simushir Island may explain a century-old climate mystery—unseen, unrecorded, and ...

Anewly published study links a massive eruption on one of four aligned volcanoes on Simushir Island, a remote former Soviet ...

On February 27, 2007, the Stromboli volcano, which has usually been characterized by moderate explosive activity, started an effusive eruption with a small lava flow clown the NW flank. The permanent ...

This Cold War outpost concealed more than submarines—it hosted a devastating eruption that cooled the planet nearly 200 years ...

A 2024 satellite photo shows four end-to-end volcanoes perfectly spaced out along the Russian island of Simushir. One of these peaks was the site of a surprise eruption that temporarily cooled the ...