Geologists in New Zealand have discovered a magma chamber being born in a surprising place—not under the country’s most active volcanoes, but off to one side. The finding suggests that molten rock can accumulate underground in complex and unexpected patterns, but does not indicate that an eruption is imminent. “There’s no need to panic, but chances are there are lots of bodies of magma dotted throughout the crust,” says Ian Hamling, a geophysicist at GNS Science in Lower Hutt, New Zealand. He and his colleagues describe the discovery on June 3 in Science Advances. The team used radar data from satellites, such as the European Space Agency’s now-defunct Envisat, to study ground motions in the ...
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