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Mayon volcano erupts and sends a 4-kilometer pyroclastic flow racing down the mountain

A wall of superheated gas and rock fragments tore down the southeastern flank of Mayon volcano on June 9, 2026, traveling 4 kilometers through the Mi-isi Gully before coming to rest in the lowlands below.
Los Angeles Times

Kilauea’s eruption is back as the Hawaii volcano shoots lava, a pattern not seen for decades

HONOLULU — Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano resumed erupting Friday by shooting an arc of lava 100 feet into the air and across a section of its summit crater floor. It was Kilauea’s 31st display of molten rock since December, an appropriately high frequency ...
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The World's Most Mysterious Volcano Can Finally Be Explained

An eruption at Mount Etna in July 2021. (Salvatore Allegra Photography/Moment/Getty Images) Mount Etna is more than half a million years old, but this massive stratovolcano in Sicily still has plenty of gas left in the tank.
Quanta Magazine

Will We Ever Be Able To Forecast Volcanic Eruptions Like Weather?

Those scientists saved countless lives, but their forecast was more of an educated guess than it might have appeared. It was nothing like a weather forecast; they couldn’t say that on June 12, an explosive eruption was going to occur with anything resembling certainty,