For nearly a year Mount Spurr, an active volcano near Anchorage, has shown increased activity of unrest. The activity could ...

The Sakurajima Volcano erupted and spewed lava in Japan. Dramatic footage shows the volcano releasing a towering plume of ash ...

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.

Tephra: Fragmented material produced by a volcanic eruption, which can include ash, pumice, and larger volcanic rocks. Umbrella cloud: A type of volcanic cloud that spreads laterally at high ...

For the past two years, citizen scientists and scholars have been working to reveal the previously hidden texts of the ...

JAKARTA (Reuters) - A volcano located in Indonesia's eastern island of Halmahera erupted on Wednesday morning spewing a four-km (2.5-mile) high ash cloud ... "Today's eruption has not yet affected ...

The Ten Plagues of Egypt are argued to have been the result of the eruption of Thera or Santorini. Does the evidence really support this?

Hundreds of earthquakes have been detected beneath Mount Spurr in the past week, increasing the odds of an eruption at the ...

While the town around him was engulfed by searing pyroclastic flows, one man achieved the impossible from a prison cell with a single ventilation shaft. Here’s how he did it.

Yet the eruption of Mount Toba released the energy ... After the explosion, a gigantic mushroom cloud of hot ash rose many thousands of meters into the stratosphere. Meanwhile, superheated ...