Tourists at Iceland's Blue Lagoon geothermal spa were forced to pack up and get out as a volcanic eruption left lava oozing from a 3,000-foot fissure in the ground.

A volcanic eruption in Iceland forced the evacuation of the Blue Lagoon spa and the town of Grindavík as lava is flowing through a fissure on the Reykjanes Peninsula.

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Update at 10:09 p.m. Sunday, June 29, 2025: Episode 27 of the ongoing episodic summit eruption of Kīlauea volcano on the Big Island within Halemaʻumaʻu Crater ended abruptly just before 8 p.m. Sunday (June 29) after nearly 11 hours of continuous, sustained and vigorous lava fountaining.

You don’t have to travel to Hawaii or Iceland to find a record-breaking volcano – one of Earth’s largest and youngest volcanic domes is located right here in Idaho, and you can climb to the top. Big Southern Butte in Idaho’s Snake River Plain – just east of Craters of the Moon National Monument – shoots

1 /2 VIDEO COURTESY USGS A live view of the Kilauea eruption from the northwest rim of the caldera looking east. COURTESY USGS Kilauea volcano fountaining returned to Halemaumau crater this ...

The Hawaii Volcano Observatory says lava fountains were reaching over 330 feet Wednesday and would likely go higher before subsiding.

The way this lava behaves when encountering a pliable crust leads to formations with flat summits and steep flanks, mimicking many of the pancake domes scattered across Venus.

One of the world’s most active volcanoes, Kilauea on Hawaii’s Big Island, began spewing lava from the north vent Wednesday, the latest event in an ongoing eruption that began almost six months ...

Scientists said “episode 18 ” of Kilauea volcano’s ongoing eruption restarted at 7 :45 a.m. today with lava flows of 6 to 10 foot high from the south vent.