The highest volcano in the world is Cerro Ojos del Salado. It is a stratovolcano in South America’s Central Volcanic Zone, reaching an impressive 6893 meters above sea level (or at least above ...

Welcome to the Volcano Café bar, a place for all things on or off topic and inane ramblings. There has been a need of late to find a place better suited to various theories, long comments and ...

The last time I wrote an article for Volcanocafe it was a guest post about the Galapagos Islands, but now I’m a new member of the Volcanocafe writing team (a little bit more about me later). Deep in ...

Eggs are of course far older than Easter. The silly question of what came first, the chicken or the egg, has a clear answer. The oldest egg that has been found (microscopically small) is from 600 ...

For centuries the settlements survived and even prospered. But it did not last. After four centuries, contact with Norway and Iceland was lost, and when people came to look for them the settlements ...

It must be the only volcano named after a British ambassador to Spain. Mount St Helens was also known as the Mount Fuji of America: a perfect cone standing above the country side. The 1980 eruption ...

Just like animals, volcanoes go through a life cycle of birth, growth, decline and finally death; they become extinct. In this installment, we will examine such a cycle of a fictitious volcanic ...

October 12, 1918 was just another Saturday. On the fields of France, the Hundred Days Offensive was turning a war which would now soon end, but leave 17 million dead; the devastation would set the ...

Jan 25, 880 AD, was a remarkable night. The Arabian historian Ibn Abi Zar wrote about it more than 400 years later, from the ancient city of Fez, northeast of the Atlas mountains: It was a great red ...

The Pahala swarm is not a single identity. It occurs in two distinct clusters, a western and an eastern one. The western one is close to Pahala itself (it is centred just south to south-southwest of ...