New activity/unrest was reported for 3 volcanoes from June 4-10, 2026. During the same period, ongoing activity was reported for 21 volcanoes.
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New activity/unrest was reported for 3 volcanoes from June 4-10, 2026. During the same period, ongoing activity was reported for 21 volcanoes.
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Italy’s National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV) reported a major explosion at Stromboli volcano at 07:12 LT (05:12 UTC) on June 12, 2026.
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Large floating pumice accumulations from the Titan Ridge submarine eruption have inundated coastal villages in Manus Province, Papua New Guinea, this week, blocking sea access and preventing boat movement.
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An eruption at Sakurajima’s Minamidake summit crater sent heavy ash over Kagoshima City, Japan, on June 7, 2026, with a plume reaching about 1 300 m (4 300 feet) above the crater.
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New activity/unrest was reported for 3 volcanoes from May 28-June 3, 2026. During the same period, ongoing activity was reported for 20 volcanoes.
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Sheveluch volcano on Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula produced an explosive eruption at 08:00 UTC on June 6, 2026, sending ash to about 12 km (39 400 feet) above sea level and triggering a Red aviation color code.
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A volcano that erupted after being asleep for more than 100,000 years is leading more volcanologists to say we must redefine volcano activity to ensure eruptions don't surprise us.
Kīlauea’s ongoing summit eruption reached its 48th lava-fountaining episode in Halemaʻumaʻu crater, Hawaii, at 04:40 HST (14:40 UTC) on June 1, 2026, setting a written-record benchmark for episodic lava fountaining during a single Kīlauea eruption, according to the USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO). The episode ended abruptly at 13:37 HST (23:37 UTC) after just under 9 hours of continuous…
Mount Rainier’s snow-covered slopes hide one of the biggest volcanic hazards in the entire US (Picture: Getty Images)
Mount Rainier looks like the sort of mountain that belongs on a postcard.
Standing more than 14,000 feet tall in Washington state, it’s one of the most recognisable landmarks in the Pacific Northwest.
Behind the picture perfect views, however, scientists have long regarded it…
New activity/unrest was reported for 4 volcanoes from May 21-27, 2026. During the same period, ongoing activity was reported for 18 volcanoes.
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Experts fear that Mount Rainier could unleash deadly mudflows and flatten three nearby towns within minutes.
A submarine eruption that began on May 8, 2026, continues in the central Bismarck Sea, about 130 km (81 miles) southeast of Manus Island, Papua New Guinea. The eruption revealed a previously unmapped underwater volcano, now provisionally named Titan Ridge Volcano, in a remote and tectonically active area of the Pacific Ocean.
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Authorities in Michoacán, Mexico, evacuated a residence and nearby homes and suspended classes at a nearby preschool after hot water, steam, mud, and gases vented from the ground at a residential property in the community of El Salitre, municipality of Ixtlán, during the night of May 25–26, 2026. Protección Civil described the phenomenon as hydrothermal activity under assessment.
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The volcano on Indonesia’s Halmahera Island routinely ejects ash, volcanic gases, and volcanic bombs.
New activity/unrest was reported for 7 volcanoes from May 14 to 20, 2026. During the same period, ongoing activity was reported for 20 volcanoes.
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Satellite imagery shows a surge of new volcanic activity in the ocean near Papua New Guinea.
Campi Flegrei, a volcanic caldera near Naples, is speeding toward a transition, a new study suggests, but there are still a lot of questions as to whether it will erupt in the near future.
New activity/unrest was reported for 5 volcanoes from May 7 to 13, 2026. During the same period, ongoing activity was reported for 17 volcanoes.
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Episode 47 of the ongoing Halemaʻumaʻu eruption at the summit of Kīlauea ended at 00:27 HST (10:27 UTC) on May 15, 2026, after 9 hours of continuous lava fountaining from the north vent. The U.S. Geological Survey’s Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO) said the eruption is paused and lowered Kīlauea to Volcano Alert Level Advisory and Aviation Color Code Yellow.
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The Alaska Volcano Observatory (AVO) raised Mount Kupreanof to Aviation Color Code Yellow and Volcano Alert Level Advisory at 17:01 UTC on May 12, 2026, after seismic activity and sulfur dioxide emissions increased over recent months at the Alaska Peninsula volcano.
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Indonesia’s Center for Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation (PVMBG) raised the alert level for Lewotobi Laki-laki in East Flores, East Nusa Tenggara, from Level II to Level III at 13:00 WITA (05:00 UTC) on May 12, 2026. The decision followed increased deep volcanic earthquakes, persistent non-harmonic tremor, inflation, and surface activity from May 1 to 11. Residents and tourists were…
Indonesia’s North Halmahera government permanently closed climbing access to Mount Dukono after 3 climbers were found dead following the May 8, 2026, eruption on Halmahera Island, North Maluku. BNPB said the area had already been under a total climbing closure since April 17, before the closure was reinforced through a May 8 Regent decision barring operators, managers, and climbing-service…
Bodies of two tourists have been held grasping onto each other under the rubble after an Indonesian volcano erupted as it is on the third-highest alert level with visitors warned not to climb it
"Many people remain determined to climb, driven by the desire to create online content," a police chief lamented after three people were killed on a volcano in Indonesia
Seismic activity and sulfur dioxide emissions have increased at Kupreanof volcano in Alaska over recent months, likely due to magmatic intrusion beneath the volcano. Kupreanof is a heavily glaciated stratovolcano on the Alaska Peninsula with no known historical eruptions. Current data do not indicate an eruption is imminent.
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Mayon volcano remained under Alert Level 3 on Friday, May 8, 2026, with PHIVOLCS reporting lava flows in three gullies, elevated sulfur dioxide emissions, volcanic earthquakes, and repeated lava-collapse pyroclastic flow activity. Today's observations follow a large eruption sequence on May 2, when collapse-generated pyroclastic flows traveled up to 5 km (3.1 miles), generating widespread ashfall…
A group of 20 hikers attempted to scale the volcano despite no-climb warnings.
Local police said three hikers died after Dukono volcano erupted on Halmahera Island, North Maluku, Indonesia, at 07:41 WIT (22:41 UTC on May 7) on May 8, 2026, sending volcanic ash about 10 km (6.2 miles) above the summit. Rescue teams evacuated 17 hikers while the search for three others continued.
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Mount Dukono spewed ash as high as 10km into the sky while a group of hikers were out exploring the beauty spot in Indonesia
Episode 46 of the ongoing Halemaʻumaʻu eruption at Kīlauea ended at 17:22 HST on May 5, 2026 (03:22 UTC on May 6), after about 9 hours of continuous lava fountaining from the north vent at the summit. USGS lowered the Volcano Alert Level from Watch to Advisory and the Aviation Color Code from Orange to Yellow after ground and aviation hazards decreased.
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