Geologists studying Easter Island recently opened up another mystery centered around the famous region. A team from ...

Scientists are racing to find out whether rapid glacial melt could drive a surge in eruptions — and what that means for ...

Extinct volcanoes that lurk around Rapa Nui, aka Easter Island, may challenge some parts of the standard explanation about ...

One of Indonesia's most active volcanoes has erupted, spewing thick columns of ash at least three times and blanketing villages with debris, but no casualties were reported.

History suggests another potential effect that could accompany continued intrusions is seismicity beneath the south flank of ...

Tiny minerals are revolutionizing our understanding of geology. Easter Island consists of several extinct volcanoes. The ...

THIS is the mysteriously glowing orange bag of animals was pulled from a river. The luminous bag was presented to baffled ...

Since then, multiple eruptions have tapped a source of magma at the base of the crust under the island nation. That magma ...

A mysterious find on Easter Island, investigated by a team of geologists, suggests that the Earth's mantle seems to behave differently than once thought.

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to create images of where magma is located and to track its path underground. The USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory has about 80 permanent seismometers on the Island of Hawai‘i. Using only data ...

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