The volcano also disrupted the island's political, economic and social order. Mayotte has been a French department since 2011 and a special territory of the European Union since 2014, and until ...

Underwater Eruption Off France’s Mayotte Island Gave ... a layer of 4,000-year-old pumice in a lagoon nearby is ... the massive seamount did not appear in a previous geological survey ...

On the morning of November 11, just before 9:30 UT, a mysterious rumble rolled around the world. The seismic waves began roughly 15 miles off the shores of Mayotte, a French island sandwiched ...