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

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

A island formed by the Kumani Bank mud volcano in the Caspian Sea stretched nearly 400 meters across in early 2023. Within a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Here's what happens when underwater volcanoes erupt after scientists issue a warning regarding an upcoming blast.

This volcano is the highlight of a chain of underwater mountains known as the Juan de Fuca Ridge (center of above image). These peaks straddle the North American and Pacific tectonic plates.