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 ...

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 ...

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 ...