The sound was so intense that it ruptured eardrums on nearby ships and was recorded on barographs worldwide. This singular ...

A terrifying mass of cloud left residents fearing a volcanic eruption in Indonesia. Locals watched as a towering dark formation hovered over Bandung, West Java, on the evening of2. Flashes of ...

The 1883 Krakatoa volcano erupted with a force of 200 megatons of TNT. By comparison, the bomb that destroyed the Japanese city of Hiroshima in 1945 had a force of 20 kilotons, or nearly 10,000 times ...

Over the past week, the volcano, which crosses Lumajang Regency and Malang Regency, East Java, has erupted 42 times. Semeru ...

Learn more about the area around Mount Tambora and how, even though it was once the site of the largest eruption on record, the next massive eruption probably won't come from there.

A magnitude 5.7 earthquake struck Indonesia's East Java province on Thursday, damaging at least 74 homes, six public ...

An earthquake-resistant structure expert has warned about two of Indonesia's most dangerous megathrust zones that require ...

The Toba catastrophe hypothesis was one prominent school of thought for many years. It proposes that the Toba supereruption ...

The loudest sound ever recorded was the 1883 Krakatoa volcanic eruption—which reached 310 decibels and was heard thousands of ...

A live camera at Hawaiʻi’s Kīlauea volcano captured a rare sight this week — a swirling “volnado” forming next to a fountain of lava, the latest dramatic reminder of the mountain’s restless nature.