Mount Shasta is composed of four overlapping cones, or five if you count the destroyed cone of ancestral Shasta, which together form the main peak Shasta and the satellite cone Shastina. At 3,760 ...

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 ...

The centre of South Africa is an amazing place. The long drive from Cape Town in-land is exciting for the first two hours, while the road climbs up through the mountains, past vineyards and valleys ...

The Toba eruption was twice as as Atitlan. But it produced a similar amount of sulphate in the ice cores. VEI is not everything. Climate impact With these estimates, the amount of sulphur produced by ...

The Afar Triangle The double-booked land is also known as the Afar Triangle, a low-lying region wedged into the Ethiopian Plateau. The region is not for the intrepid. The name is synonymous with ...

The most recent eruption around 960 AD formed the so-called Rauðhálsahraun. The lava covered around 13 km 2 within the valley of Hnappadalur. The volume of the eruption may have been up to 0.1 km 3.

The area is much better suited to Icelandic tourism than the Blue Lagoon ever was, since it is natural, offers a much greater choice and has a great variety of landscapes and volcanic features. It is ...

This page contains useful links and graphics for the current notable event. The following is for mbl.is cameras, with a Thorbjorn focus March 2024 cams, MBL RUV operates several camera: March 2024 ...

If we track the earthquakes that are larger than 2.5Mw we end up with them peaking at about 2.1km, those that are smaller are not well defined enough to be able to pinpoint depth enough to really be ...

The uplifted block is on-land near the coastal town of Pozzuoli. The well known sulphur field, Solfatara, is also associated with this block. Another locus of activity exists off-shore, at the centre ...