In a remote corner of the U.S., active volcanoes wait patiently above the ridgelines, leaving residents on edge.

A 4.4-magnitude earthquake struck Italy's volcanic region of Campi Flegrei and the nearby city of Naples in the early hours of Thursday, causing hundreds of panicked residents to run out into the ...

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 ...

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 ...

In July 2000 Copahue registered its largest eruption in 100 years. Eruption of lapilli, ash, and bombs occurred at the volcano. Bombs up to 13 cm in diameter were ejected more than 8 km from the ...

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 ...

Courtesy: Las Vegas News Bureau On April 22, 1952 about 200 reporters from across the country gathered on a mound of volcanic rock on ... detonation of a nuclear bomb on United States soil.

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 ...

Children run on blackened lava rock from a previous eruption near the Mauna Loa volcano as it erupts on Wednesday near Hilo, Hawaii. The Associated Press Prayer. Bombs. Walls. Over the decades ...