The good news is that because the top of the volcano is still 4,500 feet below the ocean’s surface, it poses no danger to people.

days before the volcano erupted. A large fissure has opened up nearby, at the Sundhnukagígar crater north of Grindavik, with lava flowing both east and west. One estimate by the country's Met ...

This was when the Earth was one continent called Pangaea that slowly broke apart and spread out to form the continents we ...

The volcano's most recent eruption — from August 2014 through to February 2015 — was the largest outbreak in Iceland for more than 300 years. The eruption began when a large fissure opened up ...

AFRICA is splitting apart at double the speed than scientists first thought. A 35-mile-long crack in Ethiopia’s desert, first ...

At 4,000 miles long and 30–40 miles wide, the East African Rift (EAR) system is one of the geologic wonders of the world.

This massive collection of basalt columns is linked to a volcanic fissure eruption. That's when a fissure in the Earth's crust lets the contents of a subsurface magma chamber out – with ...

The Icelandic Meteorological Office said in its latest update on December 3 that the lava flow from a fissure on the Reykjanes peninsula had been “constant for the past few days”. A timelapse ...

For the time being, the well-known Blue Lagoon thermal spa has closed its doors due to the great risk that a volcanic fissure could open up in the same area. (Photo by Raul Moreno/SOPA Images ...