A volcano on Sakurajima in Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, erupted early Sunday morning, sending a plume of ash and smo ...
The outcome is a spectacular vortex of dark smoke caused by the large lava fountains to create a "volnado" phenomenon.
The scientists used a climate model to simulate eruptions that injected up to 160 million tonnes of sulfur into the stratosphere. The largest volcanic event of the past 6,000 years was the eruption of ...
The current eruption in Halema‘uma‘u Crater within Kilauea’s summit caldera began on Dec. 23, 2024. Since then, 35 episodes ...
Hawaii's Kilauea volcano, one of the world's most active, erupted again on 9 November shooting a massive fountain of lava ...
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — The tsunami threat around the Pacific from a huge undersea volcanic eruption has begun to recede, while the extent of damage to Tonga remains unclear. The eruption on ...
On November 13th 1985, just after 9pm, the Nevado del Ruiz volcano in the northern Andes, also known as Cumanday, Tabuchía, ...
A volcanic eruption in the South Pacific was so powerful that its shockwaves left the planet and reached space, new research shows. The 2022 underwater Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha‘apai eruption, one of the ...
Volcanic eruptions can destroy essential infrastructure, ground air traffic for days, wipe out entire cities, disrupt the climate for years, and even wipe out life on Earth, so it's important to know ...