Japan has paid a high diplomatic price for its territorial disputes with China and South Korea over uninhabited islets in the East China Sea and the Sea of Japan. But Japan may get a freebie in the ...

We know very little about the processes that lead to a reeruption of supervolcanoes such as the mostly underwater Kikai caldera in Japan (pictured) and are therefore ill-equipped to make predictions.

An eruption forecast is a probabilistic assessment of the likelihood and timing of volcanic activity. The forecast may also include information about the expected style of activity (Section 1.6), the ...