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Volcanic unrest continues at Whakaari/White Island. As of Wednesday, the Volcanic Alert Level remained at Level 2 with moderate to heightened unrest, and the...

Volcanic unrest continues at Whakaari/White Island. As of Wednesday, the Volcanic Alert Level remained at Level 2 with moderate to heightened unrest, and the...

The lava eruption on Holuhraun continues. Lava flows northward from the eruption site. At 20:00 UTC yesterday, the lava extended over a 3-km2. This corresponds to a magma discharge of 300 to 500 cubic meters per second. From observations yesterday evening, the volume of erupted lava is between 16 and 25 million cubic meters. The eruption has not created any ash-fall.

Mount Ruapehu is experiencing an “uncommon style of small earthquakes”, GNS Science says. 
The volcano’s crater lake recently had a drop in temperature and

Mount Ruapehu is experiencing an “uncommon style of small earthquakes”, GNS Science says. The volcano’s crater lake recently had a drop in temperature and...

Mount Shishaldin in Unimak Island in the eastern Aleutian Islands of Alaska has erupted sending ash 28,000 ft into the air and raising aviation warnings to red and volcano alert levels to warning

The Shishaldin Volcano in Alaska has been erupting for five days with plumes of ash being sent tens of thousands of feet into the atmosphere with a warning in place for the volcano alert level

The Shishaldin Volcano has been spewing great plumes of ash into the air since July 11, according to the Alaska Volcano Observatory (AVO).

More than 20 aftershocks have been recorded following Sunday’s 4.4 magnitude earthquake in Taupō, GNS Science says.
Duty volcanologist Yannik Behr said sha

The eruptive activity at Holuhraun continues at similar intensity. Lava flows to the East at similar rates as yesterday. The lava is now flowing in the river bed of Jökulsá á Fjöllum. No explosive activity due to the lava and river water interaction has been observed, but steam rises from the lava.