Prior to the dramatic eruption, the volcano in Guatemala had been quiescent for 500 years. The blast left a large crater, nearly a mile (1.5 km) across, on the mountain's southwest flank. The symmetrical, tree-covered volcano is part of a chain of stratovolcanoes that rises along ...
Its local name of "The smallest volcano of the world" was coined because of its overall exterior cone-shape and its central crater. The Cuexcomate sinter cone has approximately 23 m in diameter, stands 13 m above the ground, and its approximately 4-8 m-diameter internal crater goes down ...
Its local name of "The smallest volcano of the world" was coined because of its overall exterior cone-shape and its central crater. The Cuexcomate sinter cone has approximately 23 m in diameter, stands 13 m above the ground, and its approximately 4-8 m-diameter internal crater goes down ...
This detailed astronaut photograph depicts the summit caldera of the Tambora volcano. The volcano last erupted almost 200 years ago. In 1815, Mount Tambora in Indonesia exploded with the force of roughly 1,000 megatons of TNT, the largest volcanic eruption in recorded history. The blast hurled...
Since May 2018, when Kīlauea’s lava lake last drained, the summit crater has filled with water, erupted again, boiled off the water, and refilled with lava. Four years ago this month, Hawaiī’s youngest and most active volcano unleashed its biggest eruption in at least 200...
Possibly the largest single volcano in Earth’s history, the La Garita eruption,blasted 5000 cubic kilometres of materialonto Earth’s surfacearound 27 million years ago. A huge area was devastated, andmuch of the resulting volcanic rock can still be seenin what is now Colorado. ...
In many respects Mount Rinjani is what separates Lombok from her sister Indonesian islands. The chance to visit a volcano is one that should not be missed. The second highest volcanic peak in Indonesia, it is part of the ‘Ring of fire’ and is considered a sacred place on Lombok. The ...