Scientists warn that the Alaska volcano Mount Spurr is likely to erupt soon, showering ash on Anchorage and potentially ...

The recent earthquakes have been small — ranging from magnitudes of 0.9 to 2.0 — but the federal government has only one seismometer in the vicinity of Mount Adams, the second-tallest volcano ...

As scientists in the northwest work to increase seismic monitoring in the region, they’re now shifting focus to areas beyond metro populations, adding more seismometers to volcanoes and planning ...

In 2006, Biggs picked up some deformation signals in a volcano in Ecuador that wasn’t being monitored. She contacted the observatory who sent someone out to assess the situation: “When they got there ...

This would force the network to deprioritize repairing seismometers and other research endeavors near the volcanoes in the Cascades. Along with a potential backslide in volcano monitoring ...

In response to the looming threat, scientists have strengthened the Mount Rainier Lahar Detection System, an advanced network of seismometers and sensors placed on the volcano's slopes and along ...

The new system includes a web camera for remote viewing and an advanced seismometer to detect volcano earthquakes and ...

The fear of a Yellowstone supereruption, which ultimately went viral, may have begun back in February when a seismometer called ... lava in the area around the volcano - the ash alone poses ...