Red alert: Iceland’s Hekla primed for destruction - Science News | Daily News from The Irish Times - Thu, May 08, 2014

Red alert: Iceland’s Hekla primed for destruction - Science News | Daily News from The Irish Times - Thu, May 08, 2014: One of Iceland’s most active and most famous volcanoes may be close to erupting. Volcanologists are keeping a watchful eye on Hekla, a mountain in south-central Iceland where magma is building up underground.
There is now more molten rock below Hekla than there was before it last erupted, in 2000, says Freysteinn Sigmundsson, a volcanologist at the University of Iceland. That suggests Hekla is primed to go off in the near future.

UK is worried about Icelandic supervolcanoes: Here's why : SCIENCE : Tech Times

UK is worried about Icelandic supervolcanoes: Here's why : SCIENCE : Tech Times: An island 846 miles away from United Kingdom poses as a ticking time bomb far worse than the human-induced catastrophes of nuclear warfare and terrorism to its locals.

Authorities in Britain are mulling over necessary measures to prepare for the worst-case scenario in case a 'supervolcano' eruption in nearby Iceland occurs, a threat that has been considered as "one of the three highest priority national hazards faced by the UK."

STUDY: Yellowstone National Park supervolcano is two-and-a-half times larger than previously thought | eCanadaNow

STUDY: Yellowstone National Park supervolcano is two-and-a-half times larger than previously thought | eCanadaNow: Helena, Montana – According to Jamie Farrell, the lead author in a University of Utah scientific study of Yellowstone National Park’s super volcano, the magma inside the volcanic caldera is 2.5 times larger than previously believed and spans a distance of 55 miles. A caldera is a volcano covered by land and which is shaped like a cauldron.