At the time, researchers noted that comparisons to the famed 1883 explosion of Indonesia's Krakatoa volcano put the Tonga blast in the running for the largest explosion ever recorded by modern ...

Indonesia sits in the Pacific ‘ring of fire’, and has over 120 active volcanoes. Earlier this year, Indonesia’s Anak Krakatoa volcano erupted, spewing ash as high as two miles into the air ...

Mount Merapi also erupted in 2010, killing 347 people and displacing 20,000 villagers. The monumental eruption of the ...

Scientists have produced a new model to illustrate the December collapse of Indonesia's Anak Krakatau volcano and its subsequent tsunami. The results indicate that 0.2-0.4 cu km of material on the ...

(Credit: Dr Mike Cassidy) (CN) — Knowing the history of tragedies like Pompeii, Krakatoa or Mount St. Helens, volcanic eruptions, of all the natural disasters, might seem to be the most inescapable.

The alert level for Indonesia's Anak Krakatau volcano has been raised to the second-highest level possible, after a series of eruptions. All flights around the volcano have been rerouted and a 5km ...

Mount Pelée (1902) Death toll: 30,000 It’s considered the worst volcanic disaster of the 20th century. Krakatoa (1883) Death toll: 36,000 The eruption cast so much dust into the atmosphere ...