The Greek island has a long history of earthquakes, but what is causing the recent series of quakes has scientists perplexed.

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Millions of people around the world live near one of the roughly 1,500 active volcanoes on Earth—from Italy’s Campi Flegrei to Indonesia’s Merapi to the United States’ Mount Rainier.

“Glaciers cover about 12 percent of Iceland and there are quite a few volcanoes beneath ... past found almost nowhere else,” says National Geographic fellow Jonathan Tourtellot, who ...