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 ...

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 ...

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

An Icelandic peninsula experienced its fourth eruption since December with lava from a new volcanic fissure steadily advancing, though the eruption’s intensity had decreased, authorities said.

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

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 ...

A three-video compilation showing blazes in Algeria, Ghana, and Iceland has been misrepresented on social media as footage of the Los Angeles wildfires.

The Icelandic Meteorological Office said in its latest update on December 3 that the lava flow from a fissure on the Reykjanes ... satellite imagery shows the volcanic activity from November ...