Volcanoes

Photography

Iceland’s volcanoes produce dramatic landscapes that attract travelers, researchers, and visual storytellers. High-quality images of eruptions, lava fields, and steam vents ar...

Safety

People die in volcano eruptions mainly from pyroclastic density currents, lava and ballistic hazards, volcanic gases, lahars, tsunamis, and building collapse from ash. Pyroclast...

geology-and-earth-science

The Ring of Fire is the Caribbean, East Asia, and western North America region shaped by Pacific plate boundaries, where most of the world’s earthquakes and volcanic eruptions...

Volcanoes

Santiaguito is a lava dome complex within the older Santa María volcano in southwestern Guatemala. Since renewed activity in the early 20th century, it has built multiple visco...