Update at 2:47 p.m. June 20, 2025: Lava fountains peaked at dizzying heights of well more than 1,000 feet during the early morning today (June 20) after the onset at 2 a.m. of the latest eruptive ...

He was joined by two others in his expedition to conquer North America's highest peak. Two others witnessed his fall onto ... who fell to his death on the Peters Glacier. His body was never recovered.

The highest active volcano in Europe, Mount Etna is a magnificent landmark on the Italian island of Sicily. Etna is almost continually active and is actually a series of nested stratovolcanoes ...

Eruptions from Mount Etna aren't out of the ... Washington has five active or potentially active stratovolcanoes: Glacier Peak, Mount Adams, Mount Baker, Mount Rainier, and Mount St. Helens ...

Glacier Peak last erupted around 1,100 years ago. With no eruption on modern record to observe, these scientists piece together the volcano’s potential from what has been seen at its closest ...

Glacier Peak, and Mount Baker — an infrastructure that didn’t exist before 1980. The eruption reshaped how scientists and officials prepare for volcanic disasters, according to Driedger.

Since then, Lassen has returned to dormancy. Shasta, Hood, Ranier, Glacier Peak, and Baker have also produced modest eruptions in the past 200 years. Volcanoes are unpredictable beasts ...

The May 18, 1980, eruption of Mount St. Helens killed 57 ... Washington has five major volcanoes in the Cascade Range: Mount Baker, Glacier Peak, Mount Rainier, Mount St. Helens, and Mount Adams ...

The Crater Peak vent, located about 3 miles below ... cauldron hydrothermal events" or rather volcanic eruptions that occurred under a glacier and created a depression or "cauldron" on the ice's ...

The reservation system, first adopted in 2021 to relieve pandemic-era congestions, has been widely deemed a success by park officials for helping staff manage numbers during the peak summer months.