Tag: tectonic plates
Volcanic eruption lights up Iceland after weeks of earthquake warnings −...
Lava erupted through a fissure in Iceland’s Reykjanes Peninsula on Dec. 18, 2023, shooting almost 100 feet (30 meters) in the air...
Volcanic Iceland is rumbling again as magma rises − a geologist...
Jaime Toro, West Virginia University
Thousands of earthquakes in recent weeks have shaken the Icelandic fishing town of Grindavík,...
How has the inside of the Earth stayed as hot as...
Shichun Huang, University of Tennessee
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Where Mauna Loa’s lava is coming from – and why Hawaii’s...
Gabi Laske, University of California, San Diego
Hawaii’s Mauna Loa, the world’s largest active volcano, began sending up fountains...
A new way to identify a rare type of earthquake in...
Valerie Sahakian, University of Oregon
Just a few times in a century, somewhere on the globe, a rare “tsunami earthquake” occurs. These are mysterious because,...
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The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
