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 ...

Rainbow’s end It is an amazing and powerful image. The wide lava fountain in the caldera like a wall flower in full bloom, with the cloud of volcano seeds above, the lava flowing from the bleeding ...

This page contains useful links and graphics for the current notable event. The following is for mbl.is cameras, with a Thorbjorn focus March 2024 cams, MBL RUV operates several camera: March 2024 … ...

Probably the oldest of these complex volcanoes is Broken Top, even if it’s exact age in relation to North Sister is not known.It is situated some 6 km (3.7 miles) ESE of South Sister with an elevation ...

The risk of another large eruption from Toba is currently extremely small. The repose times have been fairly consistent around 400,000 years, and the next one is therefore not due until around AD ...

Keli highland 3608 m, Georgia This is a volcanic highland, covering 600 km 2, which straddles the Caucasus watershed and could be considered as both part of Europe and part of Asia (in true fashion, a ...

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.

The knocking on the door would not go away. In his dream, Chris Schofield had just taken his seat on the KLM/Air France flight from Fukuoka to Amsterdam he was scheduled to board tomorrow morning at ...

Here is the sky, all alone. Here is the sea, all alone. There is nothing more –no sound, no movement. Only the sky and the sea. Only Heart-of-Sky, alone. So begins the creation story of the Maya.

Kelud is an inconspicuously small volcano that is only 1 731 meters high. The edifice is craggy and unevenly formed; one could even go so far and say that this is certainly not one of the more ...

Kerguelen Island is very different from these two volcanic islands. It is much larger, at 150 km across. A description of the island can be found here.The picture at the top of this post shows a scene ...

First of all I would like to thank Carl Rehnberg for inviting me to write a guest post and I will be talking a bit about the Galapagos Islands. For a good few years I’ve been wanting to visit the ...