Many residents heard the volcano awaken before it violently erupted; its column of lava and ash was seen for miles as it lit ...

Guatemala’s “Volcán de Fuego” is once again roaring to life, spewing gas and ash into the sky and prompting the evacuation of ...

Archaeologists and volcanologists have proven that the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius turned a young man's brain into glass.

Volcanic debris “poured across the land,” wrote the Roman lawyer Pliny the Younger, and blanketed the town in a darkness “like the black of closed and unlighted rooms.” Within two days ...

rock and volcanic debris and causes it to flow rapidly downward. But it doesn't always take an eruption to trigger a lahar, according to the Seismological Society of America. Rarely, these ...

Guatemala’s Volcano of Fire is erupting, and authorities have evacuated nearly 300 families while warning that another 30,000 people in the area could be at risk. The eruption started overnight.

Guatemala’s Volcano of Fire is erupting, and authorities have evacuated nearly 300 families while warning that another 30,000 ...

where a volcanic eruption happens under a glacier, creating a depression, or "cauldron" on the surface of the ice. These can often result in the explosive release of steam and significant debris ...

Some time later, the next wave of pyroclastic flow reached Herculaneum and the entire town was entombed in as much as 60 feet of ash and debris from the volcano. While the young man's body was ...