A huge river of underground magma responsible for the recent eruptions at Iceland's Reykjanes peninsula flowed much faster than scientists initially thought. The 9-mile-long magma dike, as the ...

Fresh modeling reconstructing the evolution of a magma dike pushing up through the Earth's crust underneath Iceland suggests that it "could be wider than initially assessed" and therefore could pose a ...

A volcano in Iceland is now erupting after weeks of earthquakes rocking the region, according to a statement released by the Iceland Met Office on Monday (Dec. 18). The country has been bracing itself ...

A Geophysics professor in Iceland, Magnús Tumi Guðmundsson, shared that the solidification of the magma dike at Svartsengi, a geothermal field near Grindavik, by 90% over two weeks has decreased the ...

When magma moves into the rift zone of a Hawaiian volcano, there is understandably a lot of excitement and apprehension. How far will the magma go, and will it erupt? But even long after the activity ...

Almost 100 earthquakes shook Iceland from midnight today, as the country remains apprehensive about an imminent eruption. The strongest earthquake with a magnitude of 3.35 hit Vatnafjoll in South ...

Earthquakes and imaged magmatic dike intrusion. Dots show machine-learning relocated earthquakes from 1 January to 28 February 2025 color-coded according to occurrence time (OTime). Orange patches ...

The exact location for an eruption has been revealed by the Icelandic Met Office, which says it “is still considered likely”. There were around 300 earthquakes detected in the region around the ...

Magma flowed into the dike beneath Grindavík at a rate almost 100 times higher than what was seen in the eruptions that took place between 2021 and 2023. When you purchase through links on our site, ...

There are currently no active volcanoes in New England, but they did once exist in the region and they created some of the landforms you can see today. The Ossipee Mountains are an example of a “ring ...