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Supervolcano with the force of one million nuclear bombs found deep in UK’s east coast

Supervolcano with the force of one million nuclear bombs found deep in UK’s east coast

Scientists found it was thousands of times greater than Mount Etna Scientists have uncovered the remains of a supervolcano on England’s east coast as experts believe it explains a huge layer of volcanic ash spread across northern Europe. Located beneath The Wash, between Norfolk and Lincolnshire, it reached approximately 65km (40 miles) in diameter. The […]

1 day ago

Scientists on high alert as ‘civilisation-ending’ volcano begins to wake

Scientists on high alert as ‘civilisation-ending’ volcano begins to wake

Worrying times ahead There are fears that one of the world’s most dangerous volcanoes has started to stir, after being silent for nearly 50 years. The eruption was nothing short of cataclysmic the last time that the El Chichón volcano in Mexico blew up. This is because the summit’s dome was destroyed by high-sulfur eruptions […]

7 months ago

Tourists evacuated as Volcano erupts in European holiday hotspot

Tourists evacuated as Volcano erupts in European holiday hotspot

BREAKING Tourists have been evacuated from a holiday hotspot after a volcano erupted from a one kilometre fissure causing magma flows and smoke plumes. The famous tourist location of the Blue Lagoon Spa in Iceland has had to be evacuated as well as the nearby town Grindavik. Magma and smoke spewed from a one kilometre […]

1 year ago

Massive volcano in US predicted to erupt today

Massive volcano in US predicted to erupt today

It last erupted in 2015. A massive volcano in the USA is predicted to erupt today. The Axial Seamount is a mile-wide underwater volcano that sits 300 miles off the coast of Oregon, and according to the National Science Foundation’s Ocean Observatories Initiative, there has been a rise in earthquakes under the seamount, caused by magma […]

1 year ago

Iceland volcano erupts for fourth time since December

Iceland volcano erupts for fourth time since December

The dramatic footage shows how the eruption unfolded. A state of emergency has been declared in southern Iceland after a volcano erupted for the fourth time in four months. The eruption happened on the Svartsengi volcanic mountain in the Reykjanes Peninsula shortly after 8pm on Saturday evening. The local town of Grindavik was evacuated ahead of […]

2 years ago