Volcanic Eruption News

A thousand people were evacuated and traffic was stopped after the Galeras volcano erupted in southern Colombia without causing casualties, officials said Saturday.

After lying dormant for 4,000 years, one of Europe's most powerful volcanoes, Campi Flegrei near Naples, is showing signs of life.

Although carbonatite magmatism has occurred throughout Earth's history, Oldoinyo Lengai, in Tanzania, is the only currently active volcano producing these exotic rocks1.

PLANE HITS LAVA ROCK: A plane in the Congo overshot a runway and hit remnants of a 2002 volcanic eruption, injuring 20 people.

The nuee ardente is a French meaning "glowing cloud." this is the kind of cloud that comes from a violent volcanic eruption.

Nov 12, 2009 Volcano is a very famous movie because it happened to come out two months after Dante's Peak , which was also about a volcano but which, lucky for the makers of Volcano , hadn't used the word "volcano" in its title.

Bright orange lava spews up into the air, dark smoke mingles with the clouds and the gloomy night takes on an ominous red glow.

Towering 1,200ft above the tropical stillness of the Sunda Strait in Indonesia, one of the most terrifying volcanoes the world has ever known has begun to stir once more.

Almost 126 years to the day since Krakatoa first showed signs of an imminent eruption, stunning pictures released this week prove that the remnant of this once-enormous volcano is bubbling, boiling and brimming over.

Scientists can't say for sure if the volatile mixture at the bottom of the lake will remain still for another 1,000 years or someday explode without warning.

The disaster movie 2012 had a blockbuster opening weekend, with $65 million domestically, and over $160 million internationally, making the planned 2013 TV series a sure thing.

A lava flow has started to come down the slope of Eurasia's highest volcano, the Klyuchevskoy , on the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia's Far East, a local volcanologist said on Sunday.

The province of Albay started preparing food packs and emergency equipment, including standby vehicles, on Wednesday, for possible evacuation of some 26,178 families from areas near the Mayon volcano due to the increasing probability of an eruption.

Nevada's such a dry place that seeing a waterfall can be a novelty. And while Burney Falls is not in Nevada, it's located close enough to Northern Nevada to make for an interesting day trip.

First there was Independence Day : Roland Emmerich's cliche-ridden remake of Star Wars, War of the Worlds , and V: The Miniseries all rolled into one.

An obscure tribal group from Mindanao arrived here over the weekend to hold a religious ritual near the slopes of Mt.

When it happens it's going to be huge. Just don't expect it to happen tomorrow. After all, though there have been 25 "little" volcanic eruptions in the central North Island in geologically recent times, it is 1800 years since the last big one.

Hey, '2012' filmmakers: Lorne Greene called from 1972 and wants his polyester leisure suit back.

Sony Pictures' $200 million blockbuster "2012," opening nationwide today, hopes to horrify moviegoers with the destruction of the world's iconic monuments in an apocalypse allegedly predicted by ancient Mayans.

Russia, the world's largest country, has grown even larger recently thanks to an earthquake and a volcanic eruption in its seismically active far eastern regions, a scientist said on Friday.

A study of bubbles trapped in pumice rock suggests it's a lot easier for volcanoes to erupt than we think, say Australian researchers.

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