Only a portion of this fault is active right now, a portion that is roughly between the islands of Santorini (officially known as Thera) and Amorgos ... and discussions are ongoing. A volcanic ...

In fact, Thera actually appears in the stories of ... which was lost to the sea after a huge volcanic eruption occurred. One of the most surprising facts about Santorini is that there wasn't ...

on the island known today as Thera or Santorini, a massive volcanic explosion occurred. It fractured the island and covered the entire region with a thick layer of ash. According to volcanologists ...

Sixteen or so centuries earlier, possibly in 1560 BC, the Minoan Eruption, one of the most powerful seismological events in human history, disembowelled the Greek island of Thera. It ripped it ...

The city was later destroyed by a massive volcanic eruption, the same one that created ... be sure to visit the Museum of Prehistoric Thera in Fira. Ancient Akrotiri is located on the southern ...

the eruption of the Thera volcano caused less disruption over time than might have been expected.” The Minoans appear to have calmly dealt with the event, as they had experienced previous disasters.

Credit: Museum of Prehistoric Thira Fossilized olive leaves from a tree that was alive 60,000 years ago on the island of Thira (the modern Santorini) are immortalized in the volcanic ash that encased ...

A volcano near Alaska’s largest city is showing new signs of unrest, with experts saying the likelihood of an eruption at ...

Guatemalan authorities evacuated around a thousand people on Monday after Central America's most active volcano erupted, ...