This story was updated on Dec. 24, 2025. A year ago on Dec. 23, 2024, one of the world’s most active volcanoes awoke.   That ...

The Hayli Gubbi shield volcano, thought to be dormant since almost the last ice age, has erupted, and the volcanic plume is reaching heights at which intercontinental aircraft fly. Hayli Gubbi is ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — Pūhāhonu means “turtle rising for breath” in Hawaiian. It’s also considered the largest and hottest oceanic shield volcano on Earth. A shield volcano is formed of fluid lava flows. ...

Deep below the Earth's surface, magma is churning and flowing into the Axial Seamount, an underwater shield volcano about 300 miles off the coast of Oregon. As the volcano grows and tremors increase, ...

Generally speaking, impact craters turn out circular in shape, hence easily recognizable. There are times though when, depending on a lot of factors, including angle of impact and the topography of ...

The situation is "rapidly evolving," the Volcanoes National Park said. Kilauea, an active shield volcano on Hawaii's Big Island, has erupted. The Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park confirmed the news on ...

This MCC image, taken on September 03, 2015 at an altitude of 6144 km with a resolution of 320 m, shows an intermediate sized shield volcano known as Tharsis Tholus. It is located in the eastern ...

Why magma flowed along a curved pathway during the 2018 eruption of a Galapagos volcano is explained by a new model. There are some large shield volcanoes in the world's oceans where the lava is ...