Examples: Paricutin in Mexico, Sunset Crater in Arizona. – Composite volcanoes or stratovolcanoes: These are symmetrical, cone-shaped and have a conduit system through which magma flows to the ...

Get Reader’s Digest’s Read Up newsletter for more travel, humor, cleaning, tech and fun facts all week long ... As the youngest volcano on earth, Paricutin fascinated scientists back in ...

Residents on the popular island of Santorini have experienced hundreds of earthquakes this week while researchers have ...

Below are 14 facts about Pompeii ... and Eurasian tectonic plates meet also make it prone to earthquakes and volcanoes. In 62 CE, a powerful earthquake tore through the region, damaging many ...

A miles-wide volcano off Oregon’s coast could erupt “soon” say scientists who’ve been tracking it for decades. The Axial Seamount is a massive undersea volcano that reaches more than 3,600 ...

One of the world’s most active volcanoes is back in action.The Kilauea volcano at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park is spewing lava once again, the seventh recorded episode in recent weeks.The ...

The Axial Seamount—a volcano located 300 miles off the coast of Oregon and a mile underwater—is slowly showing signs of an impending eruption. Although less well-known that other volcanic giants of ...

An "unusually large" ice volcano in Iceland could be about to blow after more than 130 earthquakes hit the region in a five-hour period, experts say. The earthquake swarm began in the northwestern ...

(“Believe It or Not”) Ripley believed last week that he was about to become the owner of a volcano. He had been negotiating for the purchase of Paricutin, the volcano which poked through the ...