Volcanic Catastrophe Could Hit This Part Of The U.S. ... Meanwhile, any large debris that falls from the sky is called volcanic bombs, as they damage anything within a few miles of the vent.

Volcanic bombs, a fundamental part of many explosive eruptions, are also a lethal hazard. If more of them blew up midflight, that would be preferable to their clonking someone on the head.

Melting glaciers around the world could trigger long-dormant volcanoes that may be awakening beneath the ice, scientists said ...

While volcanic bombs are exciting, it's the bursts of gas spraying tiny crystals of metallic gold that surprise scientists, who estimate the volcano spews around 80 grams of gold a day ...

A bomb detonates on Hawaii's Mauna Loa volcano, near the 8,500-foot-elevation source of the lava flow. Army Air Corps/11th Photo Section ...

HONOLULU (AP) — Prayer. Bombs. Walls. Over the decades, people have tried all of them to stanch the flow of lava from Hawaii’s volcanoes as it lumbered toward roads, homes and infrastructure ...

IT is certainly not without diffidence that any British geologist will venture to question Prof. Bonney's interpretations of volcanic phenomena, but in this case he is clearly in opposition not ...

A volcano's latest eruption on Hawaii's Big Island fountained lava more than 1,000 ft. into the sky on May 25. With its summit at 4,091 ft., Kilauea has had lava fountaining from its Halemaumau ...

More than 50 years later, Thomas A. Jaggar, the founder of the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, asked U.S. Army Air Services to send planes to bomb a Mauna Loa vent to disrupt lava channels.