A 30,000-year-old vulture feather represents a "two-for-the-price-of one" discovery: the fossil itself, and the first ...

WHEN Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79AD, torrents of ash and pumice smothered Pompeii, displacing around 15,000 inhabitants and ...

The southern Italian city of Naples was struck by a 4.4-magnitude quake early Thursday that caused only minor damage.

A 2022 satellite photo shows a large plume of discolored water rising from the undersea Kavachi volcano, during an eruption ...

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

The biggest danger from the volcano are lahars, a mixture of ash, rock, mud and debris, that can bury entire towns. A 2018 ...

In a remote corner of the U.S., active volcanoes wait patiently above the ridgelines, leaving residents on edge.

Pulses of colder volcanic debris followed, engulfing the area. “The residents of Herculaneum were already dead by the time they were buried,” Dr. Giordano said. Although the short-lived ash ...

Underwater volcanoes, like that of Home Reef ... In contrast, explosive eruptions, which fragment lava into ash and debris, produce islands more susceptible to rapid erosion by waves and currents. The ...

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 ...

Whereas in Pompeii the streets were buried under more than a dozen feet of volcanic ash and pumice, Herculaneum was hit by blazing 'pyroclastic' flows of gas and debris. The remains of the young ...

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 ...