Japanese authorities have issued guidance on how the public should respond if the famous Mount Fuji volcano, near Tokyo, were ...

Japanese authorities issued a mid-level warning Sunday for a volcano in the southwestern Kyushu region, telling people not to ...

A government-appointed panel, composed of volcanologists and disaster preparedness experts, has now issued a set of ...

Iceland sits above a volcanic hot spot in the North Atlantic and averages one eruption every four to five years. The most ...

The Japanese government has issued a contingency plan for a potential Mount Fuji eruption, to help the public prepare for the ...

An explosive eruption rocked Sakurajima Volcano in Japan's Kagoshima Prefecture on March 25. The eruption sent a massive ash ...

An eruption of the iconic mountain could release 10 times the amount of debris generated by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

Japanese officials have raised the volcanic alert for Mount Shinmoe to Level 3 on the five-level scale, restricting access to ...

Deadly volcanic activity in Japan in recent years includes the 1993 eruption of Mount Unzen’s Fugendake and the 2014 eruption of Mount Ontakesan in central Japan. Both incidents killed dozens of ...

A town and popular tourist attraction has been evacuated in Iceland after a volcano erupted near the nation’s capital, ...

In a historic initiative, Japan has implemented four distinct response measures depending on the ash thickness resulting from a potential eruption similar to that of 1707. Each plan addresses specific ...