A volcano in northern Ethiopia erupted Sunday, marking its first known eruption in 12,000 years. The volcano, called Hayli ...

The sudden awakening of a volcano that had been quiet for roughly 12,000 years has transformed a remote corner of Ethiopia into a global focal point, as a towering ash plume shot into the sky like an ...

A scientist warns that the world is ill-prepared for a potential large-scale disaster, triggered by an unmonitored active ...

"While no human lives and livestock have been lost so far, many villages have been covered in ash and as a result their ...

A local administrator said there was no previous record of an eruption by the Hayli Gubbi volcano and that he fears for the ...

The eruption of a long dormant volcano has been described as 'feeling like a bomb' by locals as a local community reports the ...

Hayli Gubbi, which rises to 500 metres (1,640 feet), is the southernmost volcano of the Erta Ale Range, a chain of low-lying shield volcanoes in the Afar region. It has had no known eruptions for ...

A volcano in Ethiopia erupted for the first time in nearly 12,000 years, sending clouds of thick smoke 14 kilometres into the ...

In the Pacific Northwest, a surge of seismic activity has pushed one underwater volcano into what researchers describe as a very high likelihood of eruption, with some models putting the odds near 95 ...

July 15, 2013— -- A kid throwing a temper tantrum and a volcanic eruption have a lot in common. Both are preceded by a low pitched whine that immediately informs either a geologist or a parent ...

HONOLULU — Hawaii's Kilauea volcano resumed erupting Friday by shooting an arc of lava 100 feet (30 meters) into the air and across a section of its summit crater floor. It was Kilauea's 31st display ...