Technicians at the USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory are constantly engineering, building, deploying, maintaining, troubleshooting, or upgrading equipment and instruments that we use to monitor Hawaii ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This story was originally published on MyNorthwest.com. Efforts to install additional seismometers around Glacier Peak have been ...

As scientists in the northwest work to increase seismic monitoring in the region, they’re now shifting focus to areas beyond metro populations, adding more seismometers to volcanoes and planning ...

The previous chapters reviewed the hazards to property and life from Mount Rainier and outlined research needed to provide for better understanding of their nature and frequency of occurrence. This ...

The Snohomish County town of Darrington is urging the U.S. Forest Service to give the go-ahead on a long-awaited project to keep closer watch on a dangerous volcano nearby. Thirteen years ago, the ...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Researchers have installed a seismometer atop an active volcano called Kick 'em Jenny under the Caribbean Sea to warn of eruptions or earthquake activity, scientists said ...

Every day, blocks of cooling rock tumble from the edges of a growing lava dome near the top of Great Sitkin Volcano, a ...

The superheated avalanche tore down Mayon Volcano’s southeastern flank in minutes, traveling 5.08 kilometers from the summit ...

For years, scientists have wondered why North America’s highest mountain is not a volcano. All the ingredients for volcanic activity lurk deep beneath Denali, which sits above where one planetary ...