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  1. Volcano facts and types of volcanoes - Live Science

    Feb 25, 2025 · Discover interesting facts about volcanoes, including why and where they form and history's deadliest eruption.

  2. Volcanoes - News and Scientific Articles on Live Science | Live Science

    Nov 25, 2025 · There are different types of volcanoes, including stratovolcanoes, shield volcanoes and cinder cones, and different types of lava and other volcanic flows. Volcanoes can be active, dormant …

  3. What is the Pacific Ring of Fire? - Live Science

    Jul 28, 2025 · The Pacific Ring of Fire is a horseshoe-shaped belt of volcanoes known for explosive eruptions and intense earthquakes.

  4. Eruptions of ocean volcanoes may be the echoes of ancient continental ...

    Nov 14, 2025 · Waves in Earth's mantle created by the rifting of continents may peel the planet's crust from below, feeding volcanoes in the middle of the ocean.

  5. Scientists find giant magma reservoirs hidden beneath dormant …

    Feb 5, 2025 · Long-quiet volcanoes in the Cascades region of the Pacific Northwest are still underpinned by large reservoirs of magma, new research finds. The findings have implications for …

  6. Dormant volcano erupts in Russia for first time in around 500 years ...

    Aug 4, 2025 · Krasheninnikov volcano has erupted on Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula. This is the second volcano to erupt in the region following the magnitude 8.8 megaquake on July 30.

  7. What's the difference between an active, dormant and extinct volcano ...

    Dec 30, 2024 · To be considered active, a volcano must have erupted at some point during the Holocene, but dormant and extinct are a little harder to define.

  8. Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is erupting in 'ice volcanoes', new images ...

    6 days ago · The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS could be covered in erupting "ice volcanoes," new observations suggest. Researchers found evidence that as the comet approached the sun, a series …

  9. 6 volcanoes erupt in eastern Russia after 8.8 megaquake | Live Science

    Aug 5, 2025 · Six Russian volcanoes erupted shortly after an 8.8 magnitude earthquake struck nearby, with a seventh possibly to follow.

  10. Antarctica is covered in volcanoes, could they erupt?

    Apr 7, 2024 · Of those volcanoes, 91 were first discovered as part of a 2017 study published in the journal Geological Society. So, could any of Antarctica’s volcanoes erupt on the southernmost …