NASA has released images of a vanishing "ghost island" in the Caspian Sea captured by its satellites. The Kumani Bank mud ...

This volcanic arc delineates the boundary between the Pacific and North American tectonic plates. A subduction zone, composed of the deep Aleutian Trench coupled with a landward line of volcanoes ...

Axial Seamount doesn’t pose a threat to humans, but observing what happens before and after its potential eruption could help ...

The aviation color code over the area has been changed from green to yellow as a precaution, the Icelandic meteorological ...

A mysterious island appeared in the Caspian Sea in 2023 due to a mud volcano eruption and vanished by the following year, ...

Deep below the Earth's surface, magma is churning and flowing into the Axial Seamount, an underwater shield volcano about 300 ...

Axial Seamount off Oregon's coast is the most active volcano in the Pacific Northwest, about 300 miles offshore and just ...

Here we explain how and why the crisis developed. Iceland is a country of fire and ice, home to several volcanoes and straddling two tectonic plates. The Eyjafjallajokull volcano began erupting in ...

Mauna Loa in Hawaii is an example of a shield volcano. Most volcanic eruptions are caused by pieces of the Earth's crust, called tectonic plates, moving towards each other. Some volcanoes ...

Volcanoes generally occur at the boundaries of tectonic plates where the plates converge or diverge, but they may also occur ...

More than 130 earthquakes were registered Tuesday at Iceland's large Bardarbunga volcano, a possible precursor to an eruption among the several scenarios being considered, the Icelandic meteorological ...