Volcanoes, with their sheer power and captivating beauty, have mesmerized the human imagination for centuries. These ...
Volcanologists have discovered that an eruption unleashed 7,300 years ago by a volcano in the waters of southwest Japan was the biggest of our current geological epoch 1. Geologists knew that this ...
A seamount sitting on a subducting tectonic plate off the coast of Japan and plowing its way into Earth's mantle may be at the root of several magnitude 7 earthquakes in the past 40 years. When you ...