Hawaii’s Big Island hit by 6.0 quake
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Klyuchevskoy volcano in eastern Russia began erupting shortly after a powerful 8.8 magnitude earthquake and several aftershocks shook the same area. "A descent of hot lava is observed on the western slope," the Geophysical Center of the Russian Academy of ...
Earthquakes and tsunamis in the news over the past few days are a reminder that we live on a dynamic planet with different hazards and associated response times. While tsunamis generated by large, distant earthquakes take hours to traverse the Pacific ...
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Mayon Volcano logs 29 earthquakes, other seismic activity in 24 hours
MANILA, Philippines — Mayon Volcano in Albay logged 29 volcanic earthquakes and other seismic activities in the last 24 hours, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said on Saturday.
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A magnitude 6.0 earthquake just slammed Hawaii’s Big Island — cracking roads, triggering rockslides on Highway 11, and knocking out power across Kona
At 9:46 p.m. on Thursday, May 22, 2026, a magnitude 6.0 earthquake jolted Hawaii’s Big Island, sending residents scrambling for doorways and rattling homes from Kailua-Kona to Hilo. The U.S. Geological Survey confirmed the quake’s epicenter 13 kilometers south of Honaunau-Napoopoo along the island’s western coast,
Japan is stepping up its volcano research that trails far behind its advanced studies on earthquakes despite being home to 111 active volcanoes, about 10 percent of the global total.
Russia’s Krasheninnikov volcano erupted for the first time in centuries on August 3, sending ash and gas nearly four miles into the atmosphere—less than 150 miles away from the epicenter of the magnitude 8.8 earthquake that struck on July 29.
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A magnitude 5.6 earthquake just rattled Alaska’s Aleutian Islands near Atka — deep beneath one of the most seismically restless stretches of the Pacific
A magnitude 5.6 earthquake struck beneath the seafloor near the remote village of Atka in Alaska’s Aleutian Islands on May 22, 2026, sending seismic waves rippling through one of the most active tectonic boundaries on Earth.
Deep beneath Portugal’s São Jorge Island, a massive surge of magma silently pushed upward from more than 20 kilometers underground in 2022, triggering thousands of earthquakes and briefly raising fears of a volcanic eruption.
As part of a growing national effort -to understand seafloor hazards, scientists from the United States Geological Survey’s Volcano Science Center are working across agencies to investigate how submarine earthquakes, landslides, and volcanic activity ...