In popular culture, the eruption is usually depicted as an apocalyptic event.
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The story of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius is no longer one of annihilation; it also includes the people who managed to escape the city.
Lava flows from a fissure near Grindavik, Iceland, on Jan. 14, 2024.
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Iceland, Hawaii and Italy have all tried to control lava to save cities in the past. A volcanologist explains the methods.
Lava erupts from a fissure in Iceland on Dec. 19, 2023.
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Iceland is known as ‘the land of fire and ice’ for a reason.
Engineers have tried to corral a mud volcano in Indonesia that has covered more than 1,700 acres with mud.
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When mud, fluids and gases erupt at the Earth’s surface, they hint at what’s happening underground, allowing scientists to build a more comprehensive 3D view of what’s going on inside our planet.
The volcano shortly before its eruption.
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A phenomenon first theorized over 200 years ago is also a telltale sign of nuclear tests.
On Jan. 15, 2022, coastal areas across California were placed under a tsunami warning.
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Tsunamis aren’t just bigger-than-average waves. Triggered by undersea earthquakes or volcanic eruptions like the one in Tonga, they are fast, massive and potentially destructive. Here’s why.
Fadli Taha (45 years old) with a photo of his family in front of his house which was buried by hot clouds from Mount Semeru in Sumberwuluh Village, Lumajang, East Java, Tuesday 7 December 2021.
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To answer this question, it’s important to understand how PVMBG of the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources classify the physical events of Semeru and the corresponding alert level.
Men cross the front of the still smoking lava rocks from an eruption of the Mount Nyiragongo on May 23, 2021 in Goma in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Nyiragongo is one of the most dangerous volcanoes in the world because of its fast-moving lava. It can flow at a speed of about 100km per hour.
This isn’t a painting or a stained-glass window — it’s a microscope image of light shining through the Earth’s mantle.
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I look at fragments of the Earth’s mantle under a microscope to learn how fast molten rock moves from deep in the Earth to the surface. This can help us prepare for future volcanic eruptions.
The 2018 eruption of Kilauea volcano was preceded by damage of the magma plumbing system at the summit.
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Scientists say they’ve found a new method to help predict when volcanoes will erupt, based on data crunched from an eruption last year in Hawaii.
Lava flows from Kīlauea.
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At Kīlauea in Hawai'i, a recent volcanic eruption has created some of the most spectacular sights in nature. But also danger for those around it.
Seismic shockwaves after a meteorite’s collision could affect systems all over the planet.
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Research suggests a new threat to life on Earth from the meteorite’s crash: Via seismic waves, the impact triggered massive undersea eruptions, as big as any ever seen in our planet’s history.
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A new study has found a way to predict eruptions at Mount Etna within two weeks.
Where there’s smoke, there will be lava?
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How do scientists predict volcanic eruptions? To do so with accuracy, they need to know the individual volcano and its history very well.
The eruption of Mount Agung viewed from Muncan Village in Karangasem district, Bali, on November 28, 2017.
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The world watches and waits to see what will happen next at Bali’s Mt Agung, an active volcano.
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The planet is more similar to Earth than any other – except when it comes to supporting life.
The incredible Blue Lake at Mount Gambier fills one of the craters from the last volcanic eruption just 5,000 years ago.
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What can we expect Australia’s next volcanic eruption to be like? That depends where and when it happens, and it could be sooner than you think.
Three new volcanoes have been discovered in the Newer Volcanics Province (NVP) in Victoria and South Australia, a region…