The current eruption at Kīlauea in Hawai'i that started just before Christmas is still rolling along. The activity from the major vents on the edge of the Halema'uma'u crater has waxed and waned some, ...

Calderas are huge topographic depressions formed by large volcanic eruptions. They sometimes experience an inflation of their floor of up to a kilometer, caused by magma injection. This process, ...

Over a period of roughly 40 days, starting on 8 July 2000, a caldera structure 1.7 kilometers in diameter developed by means of gradual depression and expansion of the summit crater at Miyake Island, ...

Magma chambers function both as repositories for melt rising through the crust and as reservoirs that feed individual volcanic eruptions. During silicic caldera-forming eruptions, these functions ...

The Bardarbunga eruption on Iceland has broken many records. The event in 2014 was the strongest in Europe since more than 240 years. The hole it left behind, the so-called caldera, is the biggest ...

September 14, 2014: A plane flies over the Bardarbunga volcano in southeast Iceland as it spews lava and smoke Bernard Meric/AFP The 2014 eruption of Iceland's Bardarbunga volcano was the biggest seen ...

New research indicates that a volcano near Naples, Italy might be in the early stages of gearing up for an eruption large enough to change the area’s landscape. In the study, researchers found that ...

A spectacular proof of our planet's activity, calderas are huge topographic depressions, similar to flat-bottomed craters, with a diameter of several tens of kilometres. They are formed by large ...

One of the most common features found at large volcanoes are calderas, formed by the collapse of the land due to eruption. The scale of these features varies a lot depending on if you're on Earth or ...

The Bárdarbunga eruption on Iceland has broken many records. The event in 2014 was the strongest in Europe since more than 240 years. The hole it left behind, the so-called caldera, is the biggest ...