Volcanic "bombs" are chunks of semimolten lava that fly out of a volcano and solidify as they land. They're often flung miles from the volcanic crater. In 1883, the explosion of the Indonesian ...

An underwater volcano near the South Pacific island nation of Tonga erupted on January 15. The eruption unleashed explosive forces that dwarfed the power of the Hiroshima atomic bomb, Nasa ...

Sometimes eruptions are explosive and lava is thrown out as volcanic bombs. Hotspots are places where the magma rises up through the crust. They are caused by a static source of magma, often away ...

What’s next? Lava is erupting from several volcanoes, including one in Hawaii. Nearly 50 volcanic eruptions have been recorded this year, and more are expected. The Axial Seamount, an underwater ...

eg diamonds - this can be mined to make money Volcanic bombs and heat clouds, with temperatures up to 800°C, spread over a distance of 10 kilometres. Pyroclastic flows travelled three kilometres ...

Courtesy: Las Vegas News Bureau On April 22, 1952 about 200 reporters from across the country gathered on a mound of volcanic rock on ... detonation of a nuclear bomb on United States soil.

August 1883 saw the world tremble with the eruption of Krakatau, a volcano in the Sunda Strait connecting the Java Sea and the Indian Ocean. The Krakatau eruption had an explosive force of a ...

Watch the video to see a ball of solidified molten rock, also known as a "lava bomb", as it speeds down the side of the Cumbre Vieja volcano on the Spanish island of La Palma. The volcano has been ...

MAUMERE, Indonesia--Indonesia’s National Disaster Management Agency said Monday that at least 10 people have died as a series of volcanic eruptions widens on the remote island of Flores.