This is the spectacular moment the Santiaguito volcano eruption was seen from the air in Guatemala. Dramatic footage, including drone and thermal imagery, shows glowing, red-hot rocks and thick plumes ...

This towering, umbrella-shaped plume was characteristic of what is now known as a Plinian eruption, named after Pliny's detailed descriptions. Starting at 2 p.m., Mount Vesuvius began to rain ...

When Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 CE, the scolding lava, ash, and gas that poured from its entrails converted the Roman city of Pompeii into a terrifying snapshot of death and destruction.

Then it collapsed, producing an apocalyptic sequence of events that makes a plinian eruption one of the most lethal natural disasters on Earth. When a plinian column falls upon itself, it creates ...

effusive eruptions that tourists can observe from mere steps away, to the andesitic variety, which can produce violent, life-threatening Plinian eruptions with little or no warning. Though ...

it had a minimum eruption time of 3 hours and likely killed thousands of people. A 2011 study called it a 'catastrophic Plinian event of similar magnitude as the famous AD 79 eruption'.

Large stratovolcanoes like Popocatépetl can switch from low or moderate eruptive behaviour to catastrophic Plinian eruptions. We aim to determine the mechanisms and timescales of this switch and the ...

People starved. Yet for all the devastation, the volcano's location remained a mystery. Now, through the careful analysis of ash from the eruption that had been trapped and preserved in the Greenland ...