The 1815 eruption produced 60 megatons of sulfur, and as a result, average global temperatures dropped by around 3°C (5.4°F).

The true date of the eruption has long eluded—and vexed—historians of the deadly disaster. Here’s what the archaeological ...

The chief volcanologist Teresito Bacolcol said it is too early to tell if Mayon’s restiveness would lead to a major and ...

A volcanic eruption around 1345 may have set off a chain reaction that unleashed Europe's deadliest pandemic the Black Death, scientists say. Clues preserved in tree rings suggest the eruption ...

Thirty-eight years ago, Mount St. Helens erupted in Washington, spewing ash, rock, and hot gasses into the air and causing mud to flow down the mountainsides. The eruption took place on May 18, 1980, ...

America’s deadliest volcano has just rattled through more than 1,000 tiny earthquakes in a matter of days, a drumbeat of tremors that has revived old fears about catastrophic mudflows racing down its ...

A dormant volcano in Ethiopia erupted after 10,000 years of silence. This event shows how the world's little-known volcanoes ...

Scientists suggest in a new study that the Black Death may have been triggered by one or more volcanic eruptions The disease may have been carried by fleas infected with the bubonic plague that ...

Autopsies showed that most of the people killed in the eruption likely died from asphyxiation after inhaling hot ash, according to the USGS. Truman, who owned a lodge on Spirit Lake for more than 50 ...