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?

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 ...

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? Volcanic ...

I am taking this opportunity to look at 5 volcanoes that at least I find interesting. I am doing this out of the perspective of the life-curve of an eruption. I find this perspective to be interesting ...

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 ...

A top-secret development on Mount Rainier came out in the open this morning. There was widespread surprise and excitement when people in Tacoma and Seattle saw a rocket launched from the summit of the ...

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 ...

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, ...

Bagana volcano is a 1700-meter tall cone, 6 kilometers south-southwest of Billy Mitchell. The cone is higher than its famous neighbour, but it is narrower. This is a mountainous rainforest region, not ...