Volcano

An international team of scientists has discovered that a 726 AD eruption of the Santorini volcano was a lot bigger than initially estimated, suggesting explosive blasts can occur even in periods of relative quiet. Published in the Nature Geoscience journal...

A previously unknown underwater volcano eruption off Santorini, six times larger and 520,000 years older than the Minoan eruption, has been discovered by an international scientific team. A professor from the University of Athens was also on the team. The...

A volcano eruption in Iceland spilled lava that set the fishing town of Grindavik on the Reykjanes peninsula on fire in the early hours of Sunday. The eruption is proving to be "the worst-case scenario," according to one expert, with...

A volcano in southwest Iceland has erupted, spewing lava and smoke across a large area after weeks of intense earthquake activity, the country’s Meteorological Office has said. Fearing a significant outbreak on the Reykjanes peninsula, authorities had evacuated the nearly...

An ancient fresco portraying an ancient Greek myth discovered in Pompeii in 2018 is one of the highlights of the ruins of the city buried by the 79 A.D. eruption of Mount Vesuvius. The fresco is inside a "domus" or...

Europe is on edge over possible volcanic eruptions at Mount Etna in Sicily, Italy, and at the Reykjanes Peninsula in Iceland. Italy’s Mount Etna shot lava into the sky on Sunday, 12 November, spewing ash high over the Mediterranean island...

Heat-resistant microorganisms were uncovered in the sub-seabed of a Santorini submarine volcano in the first study of its kind.

Iceland has declared a state of emergency after a series of earthquakes near Fagradalsfjall volcano raised fears of eruption. The Icelandic Meteorological Office (IMO) speaks of the possibility that large amounts of magma is spreading underground and could surface in...

George Lycurgus created the Sans Souci Hotel and later ran the Volcano House Hotel on the edge of the Kilaeua volcano.

A recent study conducted by scientists from University College London (UCL) and Italy's National Research Institute for Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV) reveals that the chances of an eruption occurring in the Campi Flegrei area are higher than what was...