One volcanologist who has spent time studying the volcano said the devastation its eruption would cause would be "complete and incomprehensible." ...

On the very bad day in question, one particular volcano, now known as Mount Toba ... when the Krakatau (or Krakatoa) volcano, also in Indonesia, erupted in 1883, it created a sonic boom that ...

What happens when a volcano explodes with the force of 200 megatons? The Krakatoa eruption of 1883 was so powerful that it wiped out entire communities, created massive tsunamis, and altered Earth’s ...

“SIXTEEN volcanoes now working between the spot where Krakatoa was before and Sebesie.” Such was one of the first reports which was sent by cable to Singapore, and which we heard at Pontiana ...

by George Waldenberger, KOMO News Meteorologist TOPICS: For many, the word “eruption” brings to mind 1980 when Mount Saint Helens demonstrated that the Washington Cascades are one of the most ...

JAKARTA — Authorities have begun evacuating 3,000 residents near the Mount Ibu volcano on ... agency said on Thursday (Jan 16), after an eruption this week sent a cloud of thick grey ash ...

housands of people declined on Thursday a government-led evacuation in North Maluku where a volcano has been spewing smoke and ash, arguing that they are accustomed to the eruptions. Mount Ibu ...

The scroll, named PHerc. 172, is one piece to a larger puzzle — for years, researchers have pursued restoration of the Herculaneum papyri, a series of over 1,800 scrolls burned and carbonized during ...

Residential settlements in the red zone prone to disasters affected by the eruption of Mount Ibu in Sangaji Nyeku Village, West Halmahera Regency, North Maluku, January 18, 2025. ANTARA/Andri Saputra ...

But AFP traced the image back to Spanish news agency EFE's database, where it was identified as being taken on Mount Etna in 2004. Greek experts have said the Santorini tremors were not linked to ...

In 2018, the side of the Anak Krakatau volcano collapsed in a powerful eruption and produced a tsunami that killed hundreds and injured thousands on nearby Java and Sumatra in Indonesia. A new ...

Mount Vesuvius' most famous eruption arguably took place in AD 79, killing up to 16,000 people in the Gulf of Naples, Italy. But more than 2,000 years before this, the 2,000ft volcano suffered ...