See 12 of the week’s most interesting images from around the world, as selected by Washington Post photo editors.

As residents flee the Greek Island of Santorini after a spate of tremors earlier this month, we look back at a catastrophic ...

The eruption of Santorini has long been linked to the fall of the Minoans. Does the evidence really support this conclusion, ...

A tall fountain of lava is spewing from a volcano on Hawaii's Big Island. A webcam on Tuesday shows vigorous streams of red ...

A series of earthquakes near the Greek island of Santorini have led authorities to shut down schools, dispatch rescue teams ...

Said to be the most popular island on Instagram, Santorini is largely deserted following a series of earthquakes that have ...

Below Mount Jefferson and McKenzie Pass is a massive storehouse of water three times the size of Lake Mead, say Oregon ...

“The eruptions are pretty big,” Bill Chadwick, a volcanologist at Oregon State University who studies the fire-spouting formation, told KOIN. Located 300 miles off Oregon’s Coast, the Axial ...

The biggest ever volcanic eruption in our solar system has been recorded, and it puts Eyjafjallajökull in the shade. While the Icelandic eruption managed to ground flights across Europe in 2010 ...

ATHENS, Greece -- Multiple earthquakes are rattling Santorini, a volcanic island in Greece, prompting authorities to dispatch rescuers with tents, a sniffer dog and drones, and to shut schools on four ...

Thousands of people are fleeing the Greek island of Santorini as increased seismic activity spurs fears of a more powerful ...

The Kilauea volcano on Hawaii's Big Island is currently erupting, with lava fountains reaching heights of over 250 feet. This marks the eighth episode since the eruption began on December 23. The ...