"Active" does not mean that all of these volcanoes are erupting ... lava flows have travelled about three miles (5km) to the ocean, destroying homes and leading to the evacuation of thousands ...

Did you know the Ring of Fire, a horseshoe-shaped zone around the Pacific Ocean, has about 750 to 915 active or dormant ...

West Iceland's volcano is a rift activity volcano, which involves the earth being pulled apart in two different directions ...

Monitoring of two volcanic seamounts beneath the Pacific Ocean reveals the pulsed nature of their eruption cycles. The Axial Seamount submarine volcano exhibits an inflation–deflation cycle ...

The world's biggest active volcano spans approximately 2,000 square miles and ascends about 13,600 feet above sea level - and ...

The geological phenomenon happens when tectonic plates push another forming new subduction zones - causing the ocean to shut ...

Tristan da Cunha is an active volcanic island in the middle of the South Atlantic Ocean. The last time it erupted was in 1961, which forced islanders to evacuate to England, according to the ...

A volcano erupted late Wednesday on the Reykjanes Peninsula in southwest Iceland, the national weather service said, the ...

REYKJAVIK – A fishing village and tourist hot spot in south-west Iceland was evacuated late on Nov 20 after a volcano erupted ...