Iceland is one of the most active volcanic regions in the world, but its seismic nature is part of a much broader geological ...

Scientists have traced a 60-million-year volcanic trail from Iceland to Ireland to a deep mantle plume that shaped the North ...

The Afar region is a rare place on Earth where three tectonic rifts meet - the Main Ethiopian Rift, the Red Sea Rift, and the ...

It’s surprising to find remnants of a plate that we just didn’t know about at all,” Suzanna van de Lagemaat, the Utrecht University geologist whose work has reversed decades of conventional wisdom ...

LIVE – Updated at 04:01. A 14-year-old girl who died in a 5.8-magnitude earthquake that shook western Turkey and the Greek islands suffered a panic attack and could not be saved in hospital, a ...

The highest volcano in the world is Cerro Ojos del Salado. It is a stratovolcano in South America’s Central Volcanic Zone, reaching an impressive 6893 meters above sea level (or at least above ...