Scientists have identified the largest volcanic eruption in recorded history — an explosion 7,300 years ago that ejected more than twice as much rock and ash as the previous record-holding eruption of ...

Since the Kobe Ocean Bottom Exploration Center (KOBEC) was established in 2015, the Center has carried out three survey voyages to the Kikai Caldera, south of Japan's main islands. Based on these ...

Aerial view of Crater Lake in Oregon, a collapse caldera formed by one of the largest volcanic eruptions in the past 8,000 years. A detailed survey of the volcanic deposits found offshore Japan ...

Feb. 9 (UPI) --A trio of surveys carried out by scientists with the Kobe Ocean Bottom Exploration Center in Japan has confirmed the presence of a giant lava dome in the Kikai Caldera, a mostly ...

There is currently some alarming activity happening inside a supervolcano that sits just 31 miles away from Southern Japan. A paper published in Nature Scientific Reports says that a lava bubble is ...

Researchers have confirmed that a giant lava dome was created in the Kikai Caldera, south of Japan's main islands after the caldera-forming supereruption 7,300 years ago. The dome is in the world's ...