New seismic images of the Lucky Strike slow-spreading segment of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge show thick lower crust at the center ...

A volcanic eruption restarted in Iceland, with lava flow threatening the already severely damaged fishing town Grindavik.

The North Atlantic island, home to nearly 400,000 people, attracts thousands of tourists every year who come to explore its rugged nature, including geysers, hot springs and volcanoes. Iceland sits ...

An increase in VT activity is often an early sign that a volcano is becoming active ... such as the San Andreas fault and the Mid-Atlantic Ridge). VT events cycle as many as five times a second ...

REYKJAVIK - A fishing village in south-west Iceland was evacuated on April 1 after a series of earthquakes signalled a volcanic eruption could be imminent, authorities and media said.

While this eruption has not affected the Icelandic capital of Reykjavik or flights arriving and departing from the country’s ...

Iceland has 33 active volcano systems and sits over what is known as the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, the boundary between two of the largest tectonic plates on the planet.

Volcanoes and earthquake activity often ... These zones include: the Pacific Ring of Fire around the Pacific Ocean the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, a mid-ocean ridge that extends along the floor of the ...

Tourists and residents have been evacuated as a volcano erupted in south-west Iceland, threatening a town and popular attraction. The volcano has been spewing lava and smoke in a fiery display of ...

hot springs and volcanoes. Iceland sits astride the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, where the Eurasian and North American tectonic plates are pulling apart, and is largely covered by black lava fields ...