Where Volcanoes Are Born Most volcanoes form at the boundaries of Earth's tectonic plates, which are huge slabs of crust and upper mantle that fit together like puzzle pieces. Think of these plates as ...

Oliverio Quira, a member of the Coconuco Indigenous community near Purace volcano in Colombia, remains calm amid an eruption ...

Learn about how volcanoes are formed and the ways they erupt Chiara Maria Petrone, Roberto Scandone, and Alex Whittaker On February 20, 1943, Dionisio Pulido and his family were working in their ...

Volcanic eruptions are perhaps nature's most terrifying display of power. Catastrophic eruptions of volcanoes like Mount Vesuvius, Krakatoa, and Mount St. Helens have gone down as some of the most ...

PURACE, Colombia -- Oliverio Quira often goes to check on his cattle on a plot of land he owns less than a mile from the ...

The incident occurred inside a hazardous closed area of Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park, showing why visitors are kept well ...