More than 120 volcanic eruptions have occurred in the United States in the 42 years since Mount St. Helens erupted over Washington in 1980, killing 57 and inflicting over a billion dollars in property ...

Mount Shasta, a steep-sided Cascade Range stratovolcano in Northern California, looms above Little Glass Mountain, a thick obsidian flow erupted from the Medicine Lake shield volcano about 1,000 years ...

Plans are underway to implement a new volcano monitoring system across the United States. The radar-based system, called VolcSARvatory, was developed in a joint effort by the University of Alaska ...

Volcanic eruptive activity may take many forms, from gently erupting basaltic fissures in Hawaii to intense explosive eruptions like those of Mount St. Helens. Volcano observatory scientists are ...

Ocean swells are constantly occurring across the Earth’s oceans. These swells interact with the ocean crust below, creating continuous ocean noise that travels all over the Earth, including through ...

Exail, a global company focusing on photonics and quantum technologies, has delivered three of it Absolute Quantum Gravimeters (AQGs) to the Canary Islands Volcanological Institute (“INVOLCAN”). The ...

A new study, led by Professor Mike Kendall from the Department of Earth Sciences, has investigated the use of a new monitoring technique for early warning of a volcanic eruption. The research team ...

Plans are underway to install a “gold standard” monitoring station on Q’welq’welústen/Mount Meager in spring 2026, to listen for signs of unrest on the active volcano. The installation is an important ...