Did you know the Ring of Fire, a horseshoe-shaped zone around the Pacific Ocean, has about 750 to 915 active or dormant ...

The Andes run for over 7,000km. Other mountains (usually those that stand on their own) are created by ancient volcanoes. Ben Nevis in Scotland was once a very large active volcano. It last ...

The Puyehue volcano erupted in June 2011 Chilean and Argentine authorities declared a red alert and ordered the mandatory evacuation of a 25-km radius around the active Copahue volcano, which ...

High in the Andes of northern Ecuador, cities sit in the shadow of mountains and ancient volcanoes covered in dense forest. Just north of the capital city of Quito, these towering peaks are the ...

The tiny Juan de Fuca plate is largely responsible for the volcanoes that dot the Pacific ... such as those that formed some of the mountains in the Andes of South America. At ocean-ocean ...