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 ...

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 ...

Volcanic gases like sulfur dioxide form aerosols in the stratosphere, scattering sunlight and causing global cooling. Alan Robock from Rutgers University warns these effects could last for years.

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 ...

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 ...