Volcano

The Campi Flegrei caldera was formed 40.000 years ago. According to one theory the explosion that formed it was so big that played a key role in the extinction of the Neanderthals…

The Alaska Volcano Observatory has issued its highest level of alert for aviation after what it says was a brief eruption of a volcano on the Aleutian Islands.
The observatory said pilots reported the Bogoslof volcano on Bogoslof Island erupted about 4:00pm Alaska time.

A beautiful video shows how the cosmopolitan Cycladic island of Santorini was formed through the ages. Using visual effects, the video presents the gradual birth of the volcanic rock island after a series of explosions and earthquakes caused by four separate volcanoes.

REU PhotoRescuers in Indonesia were dispatched Sept. 28 to evacuate nearly 400 tourists, most of them foreigners, after a volcano erupted at one of the country's most popular hiking destinations, an official said.

In a feature piece on the Greek island of Santorini, Travel and Leisure editor, Erika Owen presents 8 secret things people might not know about the iconic island.

Researchers have discovered an interconnected series of subsea pools which contain high concentrations of carbon dioxide in the waters off the island of Santorini, Greece.

Japan’s Sakurajima volcano located 30 miles from the Sendai nuclear power plant has erupted spewing lava and ash 2Km into the sky.

The Meteorological Agency said the eruption began at around 7pm local time, while it banned entry to the area expanding an existing no-go zone around the crater to a 1.2-mile radius.

Two icy volcanoes may erupt at Pluto’s south pole, according to images from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft.

The images show two mountains in circular shape and with deep depressions in their centers. One, Wright Mons, is 3 to 5 kilometres high and the other, Piccard Mons, is up to 6 kilometres high.

Researchers from the Department of Earth Sciences at Royal Holloway, University of London, have made the study, which was published on 28 October in Scientific Reports.

The most famous volcano in Greece is that of Santorini thanks to the majestic caldera – the largest in the world at 300 meters in height and with a diameter of 11 kms. However there are 39 volcanoes in regions around Greece, the country with one of the most well-known volcanic arcs worldwide.