Krakatau, a volcanic island in Indonesia, killed more than 30,000 people when it erupted in 1883. One might assume that ...
It was an explosive model. UK scientists raised alarm bells after drawing up an apocalyptic play-by-play detailing what would happen if the famed Yellowstone supervolcano blew its stack. “A ...
Bill Chadwick has forecast an Axial Seamount eruption correctly once before, and he is now working through his second attempt ...
Will Yellowstone erupt or are we blowing things out of proportion? We may have underestimated Yellowstone’s potential to blow its stack in the future. Chinese scientists have made a disconcerting find ...
What if Yellowstone suddenly went from bubbling geysers and spectacular landscapes to the site of one of the largest volcanic ...
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In the summer of 1991, Pinatubo, a volcano in the Philippines, self-destructed. The eruption started on June 12, and three days later it ...
Scientists study a buried volcanic eruption deposit in the Andes to show how the mountain range formed slowly over millions ...
An enormous Chilean eruption buried an ancient landscape whose shape now reveals how quickly the Andes were rising before ...
A Yellowstone super-eruption would begin not with a sudden surprise, but with weeks of increasingly alarming warning signs such as migrating earthquake swarms, rapid ground uplift, changing geysers, ...