This anomaly has long perplexed geologists, but researchers at the Indian Institute of Science in Bengaluru, India, have now ...

Christmas in 2004, when a 9.1-magnitude earthquake west of the Indonesian island of Sumatra set off a mammoth wave that was ...

August 1883 saw the world tremble with the eruption of Krakatau, a volcano in the Sunda Strait connecting the Java Sea and the Indian Ocean. The Krakatau eruption had an explosive force of a ...

Diego Garcia, a remote Indian Ocean island nearly 2,000 miles from the East African coast, boasts clear-blue waters, pristine beaches — and a US-UK military base at the heart of the great-power ...

and dragging the Indian continent along with it, northward, towards Tibet. As the plates collided, the sinking ocean floor generated volcanoes in southern Tibet because the rock at the top of the ...

2 min read The Ring of Fire is a roughly 25,000-mile chain of volcanoes and seismically active sites that outline the Pacific Ocean ... Antarctic, Indian, Australian, Philippine, and other ...

Villages, such as Bronggang, 15 kilometres from the volcano, were buried under 30 centimetres of ash. sulfur dioxide was blown across Indonesia, the Indian Ocean and as far south as Australia.