Volcano Eruptions News Today

Welcome to the lead, aim jake tapper. And we start with breaking news, violent and explosive wildfires in hawaii. Fueled by strong winds from a hurricane, 800 miles away. It is a situation so sudden and so catastrophic on maui, local Officials Say a dozen people ran into the ocean to try to escape the flames. And they went out so far they then had to be rescued. Hawaiis governor said hundreds of families have been displaced and some loss of life is expected, unquote. Cell towers and 911 are out ...

Boasting the greatest height of domestic single peak mountains in the country, Mount Fuji is loved as a sightseeing attraction representative of Japan throughout the world. In fact, over 300,000 mountaineers flock to it every year.

TAGULANDANG: An Indonesian volunteer returns from a dangerous rescue mission to a remote island where a volcano...

Mount Ruang’s potential impacts to weather and climate are starting to come into focus, even as the danger posed by the volcano persists.

Originally from Tuscany, Sara Barsotti has spent the past decade leading the task force monitoring Iceland's major volcanic eruption threat. Evacuations may have saved lives after a major eruption Monday night.

Footage captured by the Japanese Coast Guard shows the volcano belching gas and molten material on Niijima island, some 100 miles south of the capital Tokyo, on 23 November. The Japanese Coast Guard reported that the plumes reached a height of around 200 metres and added eruptive activity was observed at the southern tip of the island. Japan sits inside the Pacific “Ring of Fire” where the majority of Earth’s volcano eruptions and earthquakes happen.

Originally from Tuscany, Sara Barsotti has spent the past decade leading the task force monitoring Iceland's major volcanic eruption threat, following all the warning signs as her family evacuates the small town they've been calling home.

Originally from Tuscany, Sara Barsotti has spent the past decade leading the task force monitoring Iceland's major volcanic eruption threat, following all the warning signs as her family evacuates the small town they've been calling home.

On this day in 2010, Mount Merapi in Indonesia began a month-long series of violent eruptions that killed 353 people and caused the evacuation of another 350,000 people

Overwhelmed with burn patients and those suffering from smoke inhalation. these violent and explosive wildfires are not under con troelg on maui, which is the second largest of the 137 islands. the fires are being fueled by strong winds from a hurricane 800 miles away. lets bring in bill weir and chad myers. bill, how unprecedented is this kind of situation in hawaii? >> you know, jake, you could hear it in the voice of the lieutenant governor who was talking about the fact that we are prepared ...