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 ...

Welcome to the Volcano Café bar, a place for all things on or off topic and inane ramblings. There has been a need of late to find a place better suited to various theories, long comments and ...

The age of the subducting oceanic crust ranges from 27 million years old in the south to 80 million years old to the north. The East Scotia Ridge spreading centre cuts through the Scotia Plate from ...

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.

This is an opinion piece about earthquakes, volcanoes and court cases. Last week we learned that a group of relatives to the victims of the 2014 Mount Ontake phreatic detonation that occurred at 11.52 ...

Kilauea demonstrated dramatically how this works in 2018 with a total of 62 collapse events, each a M 5.3 earthquake. But the step-like nature of a caldera formation was well know before, Bardarbunga ...

A few days ago, in the VC back-channel, I made mention of something I had seen on a SciChan program. That October is the anniversary of the 79AD eruption. Albert then chimed in with a link to a BBC… ...

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 ...

Lava flows come in all sizes. The Reykjanes eruption produced flows of several kilometers length. Other volcanoes can do ten times that length, although we do not have a lot of recent experience with ...