Scientists tracking the Pacific’s most volatile margins are watching a familiar pattern sharpen into something more urgent, ...

Hayli Gubbi in Ethiopia erupted for the first time in thousands of years. Scientists explain what it means and whether the Pacific 'Ring of Fire' is coming to life.

The Pacific 'Ring of Fire' is surging into public consciousness once again, following recent volcanic headlines from the Hayli Gubbi eruption in Ethiopia — a dramatic event involving thick ash plumes ...

The magnitude 8.8 earthquake that struck off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula on July 29 may have been one of the 10 largest ever recorded on the planet, but it wasn't totally unprecedented. The ...

The Ring of Fire is an enormous belt of active and dormant volcanoes that surrounds most of the Pacific Ocean. It runs from southern Chile, up the west coast of the Americas, through the islands off ...

Chaos erupted in Indonesia on Wednesday as Mount Lewotobi Laki-laki, one of the country's most active volcanoes, blasted lava and ash into the sky. The first eruption struck at 1:35am local time, ...

Recent major volcanic eruptions in Indonesia and Ethiopia have sparked questions about increasing activity. However, experts ...

Earthquakes can also occur within a single tectonic plate, thus occurring on land rather than at sea. Since earthquakes ...

JAKARTA (Reuters) - A deadly lava flow at the weekend that killed five people and sent hundreds fleeing illustrates the formidable challenges Indonesia faces in coping with the constant threat of ...

Many of the world’s biggest earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and tsunamis occur along a chain of seismologically active regions that encircle the Pacific Ocean. By Victoria Kim Hundreds of millions of ...

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...