Samples of extremely small crystal clots, each polished to the thickness of a human hair or thinner, have revealed information about the process triggering the major 2006 eruption of Alaska's ...

As Alaska's Augustine Volcano erupts and sends a plume of ash more than 40,000 feet into the air, instruments on the ground are recording rumblings at the volcano's surface. The data collected will ...

New research examined earthquake swarms caused by mounting volcanic pressure which may signal an imminent eruption. The research team studied Augustine Volcano in Alaska which erupted in 2006 and ...

Augustine Volcano sits alone, a 4,000-foot pyramid on its own island in Cook Inlet. Like many volcanoes, it has a tendency to become top-heavy. When gravity acts on Augustine's steep dome, rockslides ...

Samples of extremely small crystal clots, each polished to the thickness of a human hair or thinner, have revealed information about the process triggering the major 2006 eruption of Alaska’s ...

On Oct. 6, 1883, this entry was in the Alaska Commercial Company logbook at an English Bay trading post, located about 50 miles northeast of Augustine volcano: "This morning at 8:15 o'clock, 4 tidal ...

Augustine Volcano sits alone, a 4,000-foot pyramid on its own island in Cook Inlet. Like many volcanoes, it has a tendency to become top heavy. When gravity acts on Augustine's oversteepened dome, ...

An image of Augustine erupting on January 13, 2006, from about 50 miles away from the volcano. Courtesy of Gerald Andrew When Mount St. Augustine in Alaska erupted in mid-January 2006 for the first ...

Augustine Island during geology field work in July, 2013. (M.L. Coombs/Alaska Volcano Observatory & U.S. Geological Survey) An Alaska company could start prospecting for energy on the active volcano ...

ANCHORAGE — A volcano near Alaska’s most populated region is being watched by scientists and officials, who warned Thursday of the risk of ash and a tsunami if it erupted. Intensifying rumblings in ...

Thank goodness for Throwback Thursday (#TBT). How else would this mind-blowing photograph of Alaska's Augustine Volcano billowing smoke and ash become a social media hit? The photo was taken on March ...

New research in Geophysical Research Letters examines earthquake swarms caused by mounting volcanic pressure which may signal an imminent eruption. The research team studied Augustine Volcano in ...