The Ring of Fire is an enormous belt of active and dormant volcanoes that surrounds most of the Pacific Ocean. It runs from southern Chile, up the west coast of the Americas, through the islands off ...

Russia was hit by a massive 8.8 magnitude earthquake on July 30, and hours later, the Klyuchevskaya Sopka in the Kamchatka region erupted. Then, on August 3, another volcano that had been dormant for ...

Triggering earthquakes and spewing magma and hot ash out of the ground, volcanoes are known for producing some of the most catastrophic natural disasters. These mountains are typically formed by plate ...