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.

Japan’s Shinmoedake volcanic eruption sends a towering ash plume. Learn how residents are affected, alert levels, eruption ...

Unless you’re a meteorologist or you live in Hawaii, you may not know a hot spot refers to more than Wi-Fi. Here are some common words and phrases used when discussing volcanic activity.

Volcanic bombs can be incredibly deadly, and many people get very close to death when trying to catch sight of one. But what are they, and how do they form? Newsletters Games Share a News Tip.

A volcanic bomb the size of a basketball shot out of the sea at one point, crashing through the roof of a tour boat like a shotgun blast from hell, injuring over a dozen people.

The undersea volcano near the island nation of Tonga erupted on Saturday with an explosive force that was more than 600 times as powerful as the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, according ...

The new island is an indication that Iwo Jima is volcanically active again. Setsuya Nakada / Asahi Shimbun “Volcanic ash and bombs reached ejected masses as high as 100 meters high above, and ...

A bomb detonating on Mauna Loa near the source of a lava flow on Dec. 27, 1935. ... the colossal shield volcano that rises 55,700 feet from its base below the sea to its summit.

The volcano science behind ‘The Rings of Power. ... Volcanoes can eject rocks and lava material in the air called volcanic bombs, which can gash miniature craters in the earth.

Instead, it breaks up into fragments like Pele's tears, hair, and volcanic bombs once the magma is freed from the subsurface. "Lava fountaining" becomes its own, special style of volcanic activity.

Bombs dropped into a volcano by the U.S. Army 85 years ago in a bid to divert lava from a nearby town have been rediscovered. The bombs, which were dropped as part of a cluster in 1935, ...

Last year, the volcano erupted on its northwestern slope, seeping lava and ejecting volcanic bombs. Video captures Eurasia's highest active volcano.