A satellite image has captured the simultaneous eruptions of Africa’s most active volcanoes, Mount Nyamuragira and Mount ...

African, and Antarctic plates. Though smaller in size, the minors are no less important when it comes to shaping the Earth. The tiny Juan de Fuca plate is largely responsible for the volcanoes ...

Mount Etna in Sicily, Italy, is an example of a composite volcano. Shield volcanoes do not have ... called tectonic plates, moving towards each other. Some volcanoes, like Mauna Loa in Hawaii ...

Mount Etna, one of the most active volcanoes worldwide, sits atop the convergent plate margin where the African Plate meets ...