Many people on the Big Island of the US state of Hawaii are bracing for major upheaval if lava from Mauna Loa volcano slides across a key road and blocks the quickest route connecting two sides of the island.

Lava crossed the Mauna Loa Observatory access road on Monday night and cut off its power, he added. It is the world’s premier station that measures heat-trapping carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

The world’s largest volcano has oozed rivers of glowing lava, drawing thousands of awestruck viewers who jammed a Hawaiian highway that could soon be covered by the flow.

Scientists are trying to measure the gas emitted from the eruption.

Authorities in El Salvador have warned residents near the Chaparrastique volcano in the east of the country to be alert after it began to erupt.

The eruption follows days of small earthquakes in the area

Dozens of people have been evacuated in two towns on Japan’s main southern island of Kyushu where a volcano spewed ash and large rocks into the sky. Large rocks fell as far as 1.

A volcano on Japan’s main southern island of Kyushu erupted on Sunday night, spewing ash and rocks. There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries in nearby towns but residents were advised to evacuate.

A volcano south-east of the Philippines capital spewed ash and steam about half a mile into the sky in a brief steam-driven explosion on Sunday, scattering ash in nearby villages and alarming residents, officials said.

Indonesia’s Mount Merapi volcano has spewed out hot clouds in eruptions that forced about 250 residents to flee to temporary shelters and left ash blanketing nearby villages and towns.

There were no immediate reports of injuries or property damage on the inhabited towns on the slopes of the volcano, which is popular with hikers, skiers and other tourists

The tallest mountain in the Galapagos Islands has erupted, spewing lava down its flanks and clouds of ash over the Pacific Ocean, according to Ecuador’s Geophysical Institute.

Authorities on one of Spain’s Canary Islands declared a volcanic eruption that started in September officially finished on Saturday following 10 days of no lava flows, seismic activity or significant sulphur dioxide emissions.

No injuries or deaths have been directly linked to the eruption on La Palma, where about 80,000 people live

A volcanic eruption in the Canary Islands shows no sign of ending after 85 days, becoming the longest eruption on record in the island of La Palma. The eruption has surged and ebbed since it first began spewing lava on September 19.

Indonesia’s president visited areas devastated by a powerful volcanic eruption that killed at least 34 people and left thousands homeless, and vowed that communities would be quickly rebuilt.

Indonesian rescuers have dug out the body of 13-year-old boy with their bare hands as the search for the missing continues after a volcanic eruption on Java island killed at least 22 people.

Several villages were blanketed with falling ash.

The highest volcano on Indonesia’s most densely populated island of Java has spewed thick columns of ash, searing gas and lava down its slopes in a sudden eruption triggered by heavy rains.

The highest volcano on Indonesia’s most densely populated island of Java has spewed thick columns of ash high into the sky, triggering panic among people living nearby.

A fresh river of lava from the volcano on Spain’s La Palma island is threatening to engulf a parish church that has so far survived the eruption that shows no signs of relenting after 10 weeks.

Authorities on the Spanish island of La Palma are telling people who live near an erupting volcano to stay indoors because of a heavy fall of ash that has forced the cancellation of flights and school classes.

Residents on Spain’s La Palma island are bracing for the possibility of bigger earthquakes more than five weeks after a volcano erupted. Seismologists said a 4. 6 magnitude earthquake shook the island a day after they recorded a 4.

Lava flows from the eruption on the Cumbre Vieja volcanic ridge have damaged or destroyed more than 2,100 buildings, mostly houses and farms

Scientists say the eruption could go on for three months

A volcano in southern Japan erupted on Wednesday with a massive column of grey smoke billowing into the sky.

There is no sign that a volcanic eruption on the Spanish island of La Palma is coming to an end, four weeks after it began, officials have said.

A 4. 5-magnitude earthquake has shaken La Palma in Spain’s Canary Islands in what was the strongest recorded tremor since volcanic eruptions began 26 days ago.

Hundreds of people on La Palma in Spain’s Canary Islands have been evacuated after a new lava stream from an erupting volcano threatened to engulf another neighbourhood on its way towards the Atlantic Ocean.

The volcano on Spain’s La Palma island which erupted three weeks ago disrupting the lives of thousands of people is continuing to spew out endless streams of lava with no signs of stopping.

The airport on the Spanish island of La Palma has shut down again due to ashfall from a volcano that has been erupting for almost three weeks. Scientists said the course of the eruption was unpredictable.

A volcano that has already destroyed nearly 1,000 buildings on a Spanish island has increased its explosive power, roaring louder and spewing thicker lava out of its main vent.

Officials said they did not expect to evacuate any more people from the area, because the fiery molten rock was following the same route to the sea as earlier flows

Spain’s prime minister has vowed to rebuild the island of La Palma, where a volcanic eruption has spewed molten lava and a thick cloud of pyroclastic ash for the past two weeks, destroying houses and banana crops.

An erupting volcano on a Spanish island off northwest Africa blew open two more fissures on its cone that belched forth lava, with authorities reporting “intense” activity in the area.

The surface of Spain’s La Palma island is continuing to expand as lava from a volcano flows into the Atlantic Ocean and hardens as it comes into contact with water, scientists have said.

One of the most active volcanos on Earth is erupting on Hawaii’s Big Island. Officials with the US Geological Survey (USGS) confirmed that an eruption has begun in Kilauea volcano’s Halemaumau crater at the volcano’s summit.

Lava from a volcano on Spain’s Canary Islands has reached the sea after 10 days of wiping out hundreds of homes and causing the evacuation of thousands of residents.

Lava flowing from an erupting volcano on La Palma in Spain’s Canary Islands has picked up pace on its way to the sea and is now within about 2,600ft (800 metres) of the shoreline, officials said.

A volcano on a Spanish island that has buried more than 500 buildings and displaced more than 6,000 people since it erupted last week has stopped releasing large clouds of ash and molten rock into the air.

An ash cloud was preventing flights on and off the Spanish island of La Palma on Sunday as molten rock continued to be flung high into the air from an erupting volcano.

The airport on the Spanish island of La Palma has reopened and authorities have allowed some evacuated residents to collect belongings from their homes as an erupting volcano continued to roar but lava flows remained slow.

Flights to and from the Spanish island of La Palma have been cancelled as a result of an ash cloud spewing from a volcanic eruption which has lasted a week.

A volcano in the Canary Islands is keeping nerves on edge for a fifth day since it erupted, producing loud explosions, a huge ash cloud and cracking open a new fissure that spewed out more fiery molten rock.