When tens of thousands of earthquakes shook Santorini, the cause wasn’t just shifting tectonic plates—it was rising magma. Scientists tracked about 300 million cubic meters of molten rock pushing up ...

Deep beneath Portugal’s São Jorge Island, a massive surge of magma silently pushed upward from more than 20 kilometers underground in 2022, triggering thousands of earthquakes and briefly raising ...

The earthquake data could suggest that "there actually is low viscosity magma at great depth under Santorini, which could explain why it can move so fast," Beroza noted, suggesting that the magma may ...

Thousands of earthquakes affecting Portugal’s São Jorge Island in the Azores in March 2022 were triggered by a vast sheet of magma (molten rock) rising from more than 20km below Earth’s surface and ...

In March 2022, São Jorge Island in the Azores was rattled by thousands of earthquakes, hinting that something unusual was happening deep beneath the surface. Scientists from University College London ...

In 2022 a swarm of earthquakes in the Azores suggested that an eruption was imminent, but none happened. Now we know why, and it means magma can be sneakier than we knew On March 19, 2022, São Jorge ...

A swarm of small earthquakes shook Mauna Kea Thursday but it is not related to the movement of magma underneath the long-dormant volcano, U.S. Geological Survey scientists said today. According to the ...

The earthquake data could suggest that “there actually is low viscosity magma at great depth under Santorini, which could explain why it can move so fast,” Beroza noted, suggesting that the magma may ...