Sakurajima volcano erupted, sending an ash cloud 1,100 meters into the sky in Japan. Officials said the explosive eruption ...

which can include ash, pumice, and larger volcanic rocks. Umbrella cloud: A type of volcanic cloud that spreads laterally at high altitudes, often associated with explosive eruptions. Volumetric ...

The disaster began midday on August 24 or October 24, 79 CE, when Mount Vesuvius erupted, sending a cloud of volcanic fragments and gas into the air.

Ash emissions from the Kanlaon Volcano that occurred the morning of January 25. These events generated grayish plumes that rose from 200-850 meters above ...

People lived in many parts of the Old World by then but had not yet reached Australia or the Americas. The bulk of the human ...

HISTORIANS have mapped out a minute-by-minute account of the final moments of Pompeii – as gas and ash transformed locals into glass. A staggering 16,000 people were buried during one of the ...

Jan. 10, 2025 — A new study based on the sampling and analysis of volcanic ash at Cumbre Vieja volcano in the Canary Islands, located off Africa's northwest coast, suggests that the composition ...

NASA's Juno spacecraft has spotted the most powerful volcanic eruption ever seen on the solar system's most volcanic body, ...

New Zealand's Whakaari/White Island, a continuously active volcano, was recently photographed by Landsat 9 during a phase of ...

Indonesian geologists have reported 1,079 eruptions during this month alone, which is much higher compared to previous periods of activity.