Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One of two main craters on Alaska's Mount Spurr, shown in 1991. Earthquake activity suggests the volcano is close to erupting ...

Volcanoes inspire awe with spectacular eruptions and incandescent rivers of lava, but often their deadliest hazard is what quietly falls from the sky. When a large volcano erupts, as Mount Spurr ...

CITY OF SAN FERNANDO—One day in June 2001, my Nokia phone rang several times. When I finally took the call, it was Gen. Reynaldo Berroya, then chief of the Central Luzon police. “Tonette, we’re about ...

Dozens of people have died, hundreds are missing and many more homes were destroyed after separate volcanic eruptions in ...