People fled the eruption on motorcycles ... hazard mitigation agency on Sunday raised the alert level for Mt. Semeru to the highest level. The agency also issued a warning to residents not ...

Monsoon rains eroded and finally collapsed the lava dome atop 3,676-meter (12,060-foot) Mount Semeru, causing the eruption, according to National Disaster Management Agency spokesperson Abdul Muhari.

Mount Semeru, also known as Mahaneru, has erupted several times over the past few centuries. However, its most recent eruption occurred in December 2022, causing smoke flumes to shoot over a mile ...

Mount Anak Krakatau in the Sunda Strait, Lampung Province, erupted four times on Friday, two of which were accompanied by ...

The supervolcano's last eruption was 631,000 years ago. Before then, it erupted 2.1 million and 1.3 million years ago. These eruptions were some of the largest known to man. If it were to erupt ...

On the 14th of January, 2022, the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano began a gigantic eruption that would go on to peak in ferocity the next day. The uninhabited island volcano would quickly make ...

Unlike other large eruptions, the blast sent massive amounts of water (146 million metric tons) into the atmosphere, which has a warming effect. Because the blast was so powerful, much of that ...

To put that into perspective, the 1991 eruption of Pinatubo in the Philippines, arguably the most powerful volcanic eruption in living memory, was rated a 6 on the Volcanic Explosivity Index ...