The first telegram arrived in Singapore on a Monday, sent from the city of Batavia in the Dutch East Indies (now Jakarta, Indonesia). "Terrific detonations from Krakatau (volcanic island)," it ...

Erupting in 79 CE, Mount Vesuvius serves as a significant case study for scientists delving into Earth’s geological history.

Historical accounts of the eruption nearly 2,000 years ago provide a precise timeline that allowed recalibration of one of ...

On Monday, the volcano on Hawaii’s Big Island had a 48th episode of “lava fountaining” in an eruption that began in 2024. By Victor Mather The volcano Kilauea erupts all the time, as it has for ...

A volcano that has been silent since about 1550 began erupting after a big quake. A radar satellite recorded its lava spreading, twice every 12 days.

Kīlauea has drawn huge crowds since December 2024 to witness the episodic lava fountaining in Halemaʻumaʻu Crater at the volcano’s summit, with many visitors hiking trails and visiting overlooks to ...

Volcanoes are some of the most powerful natural forces on Earth, capable of reshaping entire regions in a matter of hours.Their true impact is typically measured by the communities they effect.

The north vent inside Kilauea’s summit crater began overflowing again late on September 22, sending lava several hundred ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In the summer of 1991, Pinatubo, a volcano in the Philippines, self-destructed. The eruption started on June 12, and three days later it ...

A quarter-century ago, Pinatubo, a volcano in the Philippines, blew its top in a big way: It spewed a cubic mile of rock and ash and 20 million tons of sulfur dioxide gas into the atmosphere. The gas ...

Images from the NASA-USGS Landsat 8 satellite captured the ash billowing across the Indian Ocean. The eruption disrupted thousands of flights and temporarily shut down eight airports across the two ...