Indonesia reroutes all flights around erupting Anak Krakatau volcano
By Bernadette Christina Munthe and Cindy Silviana JAKARTA, Dec 27 (Reuters) – Indonesia on Thursday raised the alert level for the erupting Anak Krakatau volcano...
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Volcanic lava ‘bomb’ injures 23 people on tour boat in Hawaii
A blob of hot volcanic lava struck an ocean tour boat just off the Big Island of Hawaii on Monday, injuring nearly two dozen people...
Rivers of lava destroy 600 homes on Hawaii’s Big Island
Approximately 600 homes have been swallowed by lava flows from Kilauea Volcano on Hawaii’s Big Island since early last month, marking its most destructive eruption...
Rescuers search for missing near Guatemala volcano as death toll climbs
Rescuers scoured a lava- and ash-ravaged landscape in Guatemala for a third straight day on Wednesday in search of survivors and victims of Fuego volcano’s...
Guatemala warns of greater volcano activity, more homes destroyed by lava flow in Hawaii
Guatemalan authorities warned that the Fuego volcano was showing signs of greater activity on Tuesday night as the death toll from a devastating eruption at...
Guatemalans continue search for victims after volcano eruption
The death toll from a volcanic eruption in Guatemala rose to 69 on Monday as family members desperately searched for the missing in makeshift morgues...
Guatemala’s Fuego volcano eruption kills 25, injures hundreds
An estimated 25 people, including at least three children, were killed and nearly 300 injured on Sunday in the most violent eruption of Guatemala’s Fuego...
Hawaii evacuees leave homes as new lava threatens on Big Island
National Guard troops, police and firefighters ushered the last group of evacuees from homes on the eastern tip of Hawaii‘s Big Island early on Saturday, hours...
Mandatory evacuation ordered as Hawaii eruption hits 4-week mark
The Hawaii community hardest hit by the Kilauea Volcano was ordered sealed off under a strict new mandatory evacuation on Thursday as the eruption marked...
Fast lava from Hawaii’s volcano closes highway
Fast-moving lava from Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano forced officials to close part of a highway on Tuesday, and they warned that sharp, thin strands of volcanic...
Hawaii street swallowed by ‘lava tide’ as many more homes burn
A tide of molten rock turned a Hawaii street into a volcanic wasteland on Friday as the number of homes destroyed by the erupting Kilauea volcano soared...
Ocean, jungle explosions new risks from Hawaii eruption
Lava from Hawaii’s erupting Kilauea volcano is exploding as it pours into the ocean, shooting rock fragments that are a danger to boaters. Inland, where...
Lava creeps to edge of geothermal plant on Hawaii’s Big Island
Molten lava from the erupting Kilauea Volcano on Hawaii’s Big Island crept to the edge of a geothermal power plant on Monday, as workers rushed...
Volcano’s gassy, glassy ‘laze’ a new threat for Hawaii
Hawaii residents coping with Kilauea’s volcanic eruption faced a potentially deadly new hazard on Sunday as authorities warned that lava flows reaching the Pacific Ocean...
Hawaii volcano spews 6 mile-high plume of ash, could blow again
Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano spewed ash nearly six miles (9 km) into the sky on Thursday and scientists warned this could be the first in a...
Hawaiians brave volcanic gases, lava to retrieve valuables [VIDEO]
Lava spewing in fountains up to 300 feet (90 meters) high from an erupting Hawaiian volcano has destroyed 35 homes and other buildings, officials said...
Lava eruptions destroy 5 Hawaii homes, gas a threat
Nearly 2,000 people on Hawaii’s Big Island have been evacuated from homes after lava eruptions destroyed five houses and sulfur dioxide gas threatened to harm...
Fresh quakes hit Hawaii after Kilauea volcano erupts, hundreds flee
GA series of fresh earthquakes on Friday, including a powerful magnitude 6.9, hit Hawaii’s Big Island, where the Kilauea volcano has been spewing fountains of...
Hawaii’s Kilauea Volcano erupts, forcing evacuations
The Kilauea Volcano on Hawaii’s Big Island came to life on Thursday, belching ash into the sky and spewing fountains of lava in a residential...
Quakes in Iran and Indonesia, volcano eruption in Japan
A magnitude 5.9 earthquake on Thursday struck Iran’s southern province of Bushehr, which is home to a nuclear power plant, state television reported, but there...
