Discover the biggest volcanic eruptions in history, their VEI, and their impact on Earth. Learn about deadly blasts like ...

ANSWER: Krakatoa, and it was a really bad one. Krakatoa is a small volcanic island in Indonesia. It blew its top on August 27, 1883, and killed more than 36,000 people. Krakatoa had erupted in 1680, ...

The science pros at The King of Random build the world’s largest homemade smoke volcano.

Less than a week after a massive 8.8-magnitude earthquake sparked tsunami warnings throughout the Pacific Ocean, a volcano in far eastern Russia, on Sunday, spewed hot ash miles into the sky, marking ...

HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano resumed erupting on Tuesday, firing lava 330 feet (100 meters) into the sky from its summit crater. It’s the 32nd time the volcano has released molten rock ...

HONOLULU — Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano resumed erupting Friday by shooting an arc of lava 100 feet into the air and across a section of its summit crater floor. It was Kilauea’s 31st display of molten ...

In September 2025, an X post viewed over 1 million times claimed the world's biggest meteorite impact crater was in Mexico and included a video of the purported site. The video an ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Officials lowered the alert level for a volcano near Alaska’s largest city to normal Wednesday, which they said indicates that Mount Spurr is “quiet” months after showing signs of ...