Volcanoes are among the most powerful forces of nature. Throughout history, some eruptions have shaken the Earth, changed the ...
The 1883 Krakatoa volcano erupted with a force of 200 megatons of TNT. By comparison, the bomb that destroyed the Japanese city of Hiroshima in 1945 had a force of 20 kilotons, or nearly 10,000 times ...
Fears of an incoming volcanic 'mega eruption' on Tenerife's Mount Teide have been allayed by scientists following a four-hour seismic swarm of mini-earthquakes - but experts say an eruption will ...
The Toba catastrophe hypothesis was one prominent school of thought for many years. It proposes that the Toba supereruption ...
Tourists travelling to Tenerife have been issued a warning ahead of the island’s largest ever volcanic drill, after tremors were recorded last week. It comes after small earthquakes from Mount Teide, ...
A 5.1 magnitude earthquake has struck Alaska, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said. The epicenter was recorded at around 90 km southeast of Sand Point, which sits along the Aleutian Chain of ...
Lava emerged from the north vent in Halemaumau Crater after midnight. The vent began shooting fountains of lava at 6:35 a.m., the U.S. Geological Survey said. By mid-morning, it was also erupting from ...
Iceland put the Coast Guard on standby and issued a red alert to the aviation industry Saturday after detecting a small subglacial eruption of lava under an ice cap at the Bardarbunga volcano — one of ...
Commercial pilots flying near Mount St. Helens reported a plume of fine ash rising over the volcano. USGS says it's a ...