For comparison, when the Krakatau (or Krakatoa) volcano, also in Indonesia, erupted in 1883, it created a sonic boom that could be heard 5,000 miles away and which traveled around the world seven ...

This eruption was followed by another violent one, and later, by the fusion of the two volcanoes Perbuatan and Danan, the historic island of Bakata or Krakatau, 9 km. long and 5 km. broad ...

A miles-wide volcano off Oregon’s coast could erupt “soon” say scientists who’ve been tracking it for decades. The Axial Seamount is a massive undersea volcano that reaches more than 3,600 ...

the most devastating volcanic event in modern recorded history'. Simon Winchester makes the challenge quite explicit: not even the atomic tests of the Cold War, he says, can begin to rival the ...

One of the world’s most active volcanoes is back in action.The Kilauea volcano at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park is spewing lava once again, the seventh recorded episode in recent weeks.The ...

More than 130 earthquakes were registered Tuesday at Iceland's large Bardarbunga volcano, a possible precursor to an eruption among the several scenarios being considered, the Icelandic ...

MANILA, Philippines — Taal Volcano registered a phreatic eruption before noon Friday, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) reported. Phivolcs told INQUIRER.net that ...