A search expanded on Thursday for those killed or trapped alive by an earthquake in the Pacific island nation of Vanuatu, as ...

Vanuatu sits within the Ring of Fire—a belt ... Its name comes from the volcanoes associated with subduction along the margins. Subduction is when one tectonic plate is pulled beneath another.

An erupting volcano in Vanuatu has sparked an unprecedented evacuation of an entire island. All 11,000 residents of Ambae have been told to leave and will be moved to other islands in the Pacific ...

According to National Geographic, the region is home to a staggering 90 percent of the world's earthquakes (and 75 percent of its volcanoes). Approximately 330,000 people live in Vanuatu, and ...

A Vanuatu island is being fully evacuated for a second time as its volcano erupts again. The Manaro Voui volcano began spewing ash in recent days, prompting officials to order thousands of ...

The World Bank has announced $12 million towards emergency response and recovery in Vanuatu, a week after ... it's one of the world's most active volcanoes. The eruption was confined to the ...

At least one person was killed after a powerful 7.3 magnitude earthquake struck off Vanuatu's coast on Tuesday. The jolt was followed by a magnitude 5.5 aftershock near the same location. "It was ...

Kate Humble joins a team of geologists at the Vanuatu archipelago to investigate some of the most active volcanoes in the world - and to predict if another major eruption might be imminent.

Tonga, Fiji, and Vanuatu will collaborate to utilize these technologies ... The outputs will be applicable to volcanoes in island and sea areas in Japan and the world. In addition, the issue of ...

Perched on the Pacific ring of fire – a belt of tectonic plates and volcanoes – Vanuatu is regularly jolted by earthquakes, though none in living memory as large as Tuesday’s. The country is ...

forming volcanoes and causing earthquakes. Vanuatu is at the southern end of the Ring of Fire.(The Conversation) The Pacific plate and the Australian plate meet to the immediate west of Vanuatu.