This is a repost from the archives, an older post by Henrik which has been updated to reflect more recent findings. Did you know there are 255 volcanoes or volcanic features listed in the US?

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 what ...

Let’s first set the scene before diving into Nordic sagas. When the Vikings settled in Iceland in the years 870, most of them were pagans: they worshiped the gods of the Norse mythology. A century ...

This is the third article in our series of re-posts. It is well worth noticing that it was first published well ahead of the volcanic crisis at Volcan Chilles on the border between Equador and ...

The lake is 100 by 30 km in size, has a surface area of 1100 km 2, and a water volume of 240 km 3. It is up to 450 m deep. The volume makes it the 24th largest lake in the world (admittedly this list ...

It seemed to come out of nowhere. In the midst of a quiet interlude, after the hugely damaging La Palma had ended, when the hugely touristic eruption at Fagradalsfjall failed to re-appear, and the ...

The main problem of submarine volcanoes are that they for obvious reasons are neither well-studied nor easily monitored. Thus our knowledge of them as compared with volcanoes such as Etna, Vesuvius or ...

Painting by Borge Ruud, undated but probably 1947 Of all the volcanoes of Iceland, the most famous is Hekla. It is one of five recognized stratovolcanoes in Iceland, and of those it is by far the most ...

After the earthquake, fires broke out, some from cooking fires and candles, and some set by looters. These quickly raged out of control and large areas of downtown Lisbon but also surrounding ...

Libya has two Holocene volcanoes, one of which is on the local rift. It is the 45 000 square kilometer Al Haruj Al Abiyad flood basalt center. During the last 6 million years it has erupted in an ...

In the previous installment, we said that there were two main sources of volcanism, tectonic driven or hotspot driven. In order to simplify things, we will examine the life cycle of an Arc Volcano, ...

Within a distance fifty kilometers out from the volcano lives almost two million people and the city of Malang (824 000 people) is inside that distance. As such it more than well has the potential of ...