Photo: Giant Undersea Volcano Found Off Iceland



The active Krafla volcano (above) in northwestern Iceland boasts a lake inside its 6-mile-wide (10-kilometer-wide) caldera.

A newfound underwater volcano off Iceland's coast has a similarly sized caldera—and it's only a matter of time before the submarine mountain erupts, scientists say.

Photograph by Steve Allen/Getty


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