Massive Volcano News Today

Search and rescue teams are responding to reports of a particularly unlucky man, who has reportedly fallen into a crack in the Earth that opened up following the eruption of a volcano southwest of Iceland's capital Reykjavík. Late last year, tens of thousands of earthquakes rocked the Reykjanes Peninsula, culminating in the eruption of […]

Images and livestreams by local news outlets showed lava and smoke spewing from a fissure in the ground on the side of the Fagradalsfjall mountain, which last year saw an eruption that lasted six months.

After a kiwi passenger sent images of the unusual ocean slick to experts, they identified it as a raft of floating rock discharged from an undersea volcano produced in the greatest eruption of its kind that has ever been recorded. While scientists initially failed to detect the event referred to as Havre Seamount, the floating rock platform it created was impossible to ignore.