Last Updated: Sunday, February 2, 2014, 17:28
Crew aboard the International Space Station (ISS) got a rare image of the Sarychev volcano as it erupted June 12, 2009.
Last Updated: Saturday, February 1, 2014, 22:23
Fourteen people, including four schoolchildren, were killed on Saturday after they were engulfed in scorching ash clouds spat out by Indonesia`s Mount Sinabung in its biggest eruption in recent days, officials said.
Last Updated: Wednesday, January 15, 2014, 12:58
ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory ( SOHO) has captured images of a coronal mass ejection or CME erupting away from the sun on Tuesday.
Last Updated: Monday, January 13, 2014, 19:19
As they prepare to erupt, volcanoes shift their base, says an interesting study that paves the way for volcanologists to forecast future eruptions.
Last Updated: Monday, January 6, 2014, 15:22
In ground breaking work, researchers have unearthed why small and giant volcanoes have different frequency and magnitude while erupting.
Last Updated: Monday, January 6, 2014, 11:36
Researchers have suggested that the risk of eruption of a "supervolcano", hundreds times more powerful than conventional volcanoes -have potential to wipe out civilization - is more likely than believed earlier.
Last Updated: Monday, November 18, 2013, 21:35
It is believed that more than 80% of the earth’s surface is volcanic in origin.
Last Updated: Tuesday, October 1, 2013, 15:39
Scientists have claimed that the Samalas Volcano on Lombok Island, Indonesia was responsible for a huge eruption that occurred in the 13th Century.
Last Updated: Monday, August 26, 2013, 13:54
Silica-rich magma reservoirs can persist in Earth`s upper crust for hundreds of thousands of years without causing an eruption, according to a new research.
Last Updated: Monday, July 15, 2013, 10:58
Swarms of small earthquakes sometimes precede a volcanic eruption at such rapid succession that they create a signal called harmonic tremor, which resembles sounds made by various musical instruments.
Last Updated: Friday, June 21, 2013, 12:59
NASA`s Solar Dynamics Observator saw a dramatic event in the sky on June 7, 2011 when our sun erupted, blasting tons of hot plasma into space.
Last Updated: Tuesday, June 11, 2013, 18:03
Modern humans did not enter the Indian subcontinent until after the supervolcanic eruption of Mount Toba in Sumatra nearly 75,000 years ago.
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