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Volcano eruption near Anchorage possible but not imminent
For nearly a year Mount Spurr, an active volcano near Anchorage, has shown increased activity of unrest. The activity could ...
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Sakurajima volcano eruption sends ash cloud soaring into sky
The Sakurajima Volcano erupted and spewed lava in Japan. Dramatic footage shows the volcano releasing a towering plume of ash ...
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Volcano spews 2000 m ash cloud into the sky
A surveillance camera recorded the moment when the Sakurajima volcano in Japan erupted again at the weekend, spewing a cloud ...
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Pyrocumulonimbus clouds: clouds created by intense heat
These towering clouds form when extreme heat from a wildfire, volcanic eruption, or intense industrial ... forming a cumulus cloud. If the fire is intense enough, the updraft becomes even stronger ...
A 32-hours nightmare: Minute-by-minute reconstruction of the eruption that turned people into glass
The disaster began midday on August 24 or October 24, 79 CE, when Mount Vesuvius erupted, sending a cloud of volcanic fragments and gas into the air.
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Researchers establish longer timeline of Pompeii eruption, extend it by 13 hours
The painting “The Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum” by English artist John Martin, depicting the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. Courtesy of John Martin via Wikimedia Commons   Despite ...
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Rescuers evacuate 3,000 residents near Indonesia's Mt Ibu after eruption
after an eruption this week sent a cloud of thick grey ash as high as four-km (2.5-mile) into the sky. Ibu erupted on Wednesday morning for about two minutes, Indonesia's volcanology agency said ...
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Over 130 earthquakes detected under large volcano in Iceland in a possible precursor to an eruption
More than 130 earthquakes were registered Tuesday at Iceland's large Bardarbunga volcano, a possible precursor to an eruption among the several scenarios being considered, the Icelandic ...