On November 5, a M9.0 earthquake hit the area from Kamchatka to Sakhalin. It caused a devastating tsunami. Over 2000 people were killed in the fishing town of Severo Kurilsk, on one of the islands ...

On 15 July, a video of an explosive eruption of Erta Ale (Afar Region, Ethiopia) volcano was briefly discussed in the comment section. It was a small ash plume emerging from the summit of the ...

The origin of the name ‘Marmara Sea’ is rather more prosaic, albeit also Greek. It is named for its marble, which was found on islands in the southwest part of the sea. The Marmara Sea is 280 km long ...

Lewotobi Laki-laki erupts quite regularly, on average about once a decade. These eruptions can last a long time: 6 months is not unusual and the 1921 eruption lasted almost a full year. On the VEI ...

October 12, 1918 was just another Saturday. On the fields of France, the Hundred Days Offensive was turning a war which would now soon end, but leave 17 million dead; the devastation would set the ...

The closure will have a significant impact on the economy. Twelve percent of Iceland’s GDP comes from tourism. The Blue Lagoon is by far the most popular non-free attraction in Iceland: it also ...

A repost on the past of Grimsvotn, as it seems to be nearing its next eruption, albeit not on the same scale as the one described here! It is sometimes hard to understand the size of the Icelandic … ...

The Elgin Marbles. A head of a horse from the chariot of the goddess Selene, carved from Pentelic marble. The Greek god of horses was Poseidon, who also rules over the sea.

Just as my head hit the pillow at around 11 pm last night, my phone went doolally… “ERUPTION.” So I dived headlong down the stairs to wake up the PC that I’d only minutes before sent to its slumber ...

Volcanoes rarely follow human timescale and human planning. This time it is Þorbjörn that decided to ruin things just after Albert had published a truly nice read about Santa Maria. Þorbjörn better do ...