See 12 of the week’s most interesting images from around the world, as selected by Washington Post photo editors.

Residents on the popular island of Santorini have experienced hundreds of earthquakes this week while researchers have ...

Renowned seismologist Costas Synolakis claimed that the earthquakes rattling Santorini may indicate the birth of a new ...

Said to be the most popular island on Instagram, Santorini is largely deserted following a series of earthquakes that have ...

A tall fountain of lava is spewing from a volcano on Hawaii's Big Island. A webcam on Tuesday shows vigorous streams of red ...

A papyrus scroll carbonised by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius two millennia ago is slowly being read once again thanks to ...

The Greek island of Santorini has captured global attention, having been shaken by a severe series of earthquakes since last ...

U.K. scientists say they have made a historic breakthrough by making the first image of the inside of a scroll carbonized by ...

An increase in seismic activity has prompted predictions that a mile-wide submarine volcano named the Axial Seamount will ...

Iceland has seen some major volcanic activity in the last couple of years. Travel expert Rick Steves has some advice for ...

A new volcanic hotspot on Jupiter’s moon Io has been detected, releasing six times Earth’s total energy output.

While the town around him was engulfed by searing pyroclastic flows, one man achieved the impossible from a prison cell with ...