The Kikai Caldera. (Seama Nobukazu/CC BY 4.0) About 7,300 years ago, a volcano off Japan's Kyushu island unleashed what ...

New seismic surveys beneath Japan’s Kikai caldera have detected a large zone of partially molten rock refilling the magma ...

This stunning astronaut photo shows the natural beauty of Japan's Aso Caldera — a giant crater-like bowl containing 17 different volcanoes, leftover from major eruptions spanning over 200,000 years.

Scientists have discovered magma refilling beneath Japan’s Kikai caldera, offering new clues into how supervolcanoes recharge.

No other puʻus exist on the caldera rim, but geologic deposits of tephra fall mapped in Kīlauea’s summit region indicate that ...

The magma reservoir of the largest volcanic eruption of the Holocene is refilling. This Kobe University insight on the Kikai caldera in Japan allows us to understand giant caldera volcanoes like ...

Scientists have discovered that one of the most powerful volcanoes in Earth’s recent history is slowly building up magma ...

1.2 million years ago: A major volcanic explosion forms a caldera in what is now the Jemez Mountains as the earth around the volcano collapses into the drained magma chamber. Over the next million ...

Valles Caldera National Preserve covers nearly 89,000 acres nestled inside a volcanic caldera in north-central New Mexico. The main park entrance is located on N.M. 4, approximately halfway between ...

About 7,300 years ago, Japan’s Kikai Caldera Volcano unleashed the largest Holocene eruption, the Kikai-Akahoya eruption. Now, scientists at Kobe University have discovered that its magma reservoir is ...