Vents are openings in the Earth's crust ... layering of adjacent rocks and then solidify. They form when magma rises into a fissure or creates a new crack by forcing its way through rock.

Fissure eruptions typically dwindle to a central vent after a period of hours or days. Occasionally, lava will flow back into the ground by pouring into a crack or an open eruptive fissure ...

Kilauea is in a unique phase of activity in Halema‘uma‘u, with 12 episodes of dual lava fountains since Dec. 23, 2024.

SCIENTISTS FEAR ICELAND VOLCANO COULD ERUPT AGAIN IN WEEKS AS MAGMA CONTINUES ... erupting from a vent north of the protective barriers above the town could flow into the fissure system south ...

A river of magma flowed underneath an Icelandic fishing ... Thursday as lava burst a key water pipe during the third volcanic fissure to hit the western Reykjanes peninsula since December.

Drone photographer Jeroen Van Nieuwenhove flew over the fissure caused by the volcano ... year opened a 15-kilometre-long crack, into which magma flowed at the fastest rate ever recorded.

The continuous fissure 8 lava fountains were primarily driven by a pressure gradient as magma moved from storage chambers beneath the summit to erupt out of the low-elevation vent on the flank of ...