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 ...

According to local news and reports from the BPBD in Indonesia evacuation is taking place of three villages close to the volcano. So far 1 200 people have been evacuated using military trucks.

Deception Island. Let’s get back to the real world. Deception Island measures 14 by 13 km. It is the tip of a mountain which measures 25 kilometers across: it is a substantial volcano.

Eggs are of course far older than Easter. The silly question of what came first, the chicken or the egg, has a clear answer. The oldest egg that has been found (microscopically small) is from 600 ...

Colonization is recreation. It features on board and computer games, from Simcity to Civilization, and from Settlers of Catan to Musk at Mars (ok, that one is apparently not a game). The games invite ...

Central England temperature series 1770-1840. The length of the cooling effect of the Tambora 1815 eruption is indicated by the blue bar. These graphs have been prepared using the composite monthly ...

The main reason it makes it into the ranking is a lava dome located on its west flank. It is called El Solo. It doesn’t have any volumes estimates that I could find so I made my own, the dome and ...

The approximate crustal thickness in the vicinity of Mexico City. The TMVB is rendered in beige, some of the volcanic features have been marked in blue, Nevado de Toluca and Popcatépetl with fat ...

Few volcanoes on the planet represent such an awesome sight as the majestic Mount Cameroon. It stretches from the edge of the Atlantic at Bakingili Beach and reaches an astounding height of 4040 ...

Richard Hodgson in Highgate, London, a retired publisher and amateur scientist, saw the flare and later wrote. While observing a group of solar spots on the 1st September, I was suddenly surprised at ...

The plot shows the number of earthquakes in the list per year. It started at low levels of 10 or less, with a slight bump around 1975-1980. This bump may not be directly comparable with modern numbers ...