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Indonesia’s Mount Merapi volcano erupted Saturday, sending an avalanche of gas clouds and lava onto the surrounding villages. The Associated Press reports the head of Yogyakarta’s Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation Center confirmed the eruption resulted in the biggest lava flow from Mount Merapi since 2020. In addition, it was the volcano’s most powerful eruption since 1930, when about 1,300 […]
Over the weekend, an American tourist fell into the crater of Mount Vesuvius, an active volcano in Italy, while trying to take a selfie. NBC News reports the 23-year-old Baltimore man, identified as Philip Carroll, was visiting the volcano, which is located near Naples and is infamous for an eruption in A.D. 79 that destroyed the Roman […]
The island of Tongatapu—Tonga’s largest—has been hit by a tsunami following an underwater volcanic eruption, and now the U.S. west coast is seeing an advisory of its own. The advisory stretches from California to Alaska—including British Columbia for our neighbors in Canada—and satellites are showing ash clouds and shockwaves appearing from the volcano, per CNN. In Tonga, the coastal capital […]
A climber who was descending Mount Hood in Oregon fell 500 feet to his death this weekend. The 63-year-old, whose name was not shared by authorities, was climbing the mountain with his adult son on Sunday during “an unusually busy weekend for climbing” at the volcano when he fell from an elevation of 10,500 feet around 9 a.m., the Clackamas […]
A volcano in southwest Iceland came to life on Friday night when it erupted after being dormant for thousands of years. Per the Icelandic Meteorological Office, the eruption on Reykjanes Peninsula began around 8:45 p.m. local time. Lava spilled down both sides of the mountain, but it didn’t appear to be a threat to nearby towns because it […]
Franchises like McDonald’s have revolutionized the way people eat. But archeologists have now discovered that fast food has been around long before the Golden Arches served its billionth customer. The longtime chief of the Pompeii Archaeological Park, Massimo Osanna, revealed on Saturday that a full thermopolium—an ancient fast-food stand—has been completely unearthed. Per Fox News, a portion of the thermopolium was discovered when […]
Indonesia‘s famous Anak Krakatau volcano has erupted again, shooting ash, smoke, and lava into the sky. Per the Indonesian Centre for Volcanology and Geological Disaster Mitigation, the volcanic island between Java and Sumatra was continuously erupting Friday night into Saturday morning. People as far as the country’s capital of Jakarta—about 90 miles away from the island—claim to […]
Thousands of people evacuated and officials shut down Manila airport after a volcano erupted near the Philippines‘ capital city, the Associated Press reports. Volcano induced lightning. Taal volcano in the Philippines, near Manila, is about to erupt. This is a major eruption from a large volcano. pic.twitter.com/uN6hH8n0pn — Daniel Schneider (@BiologistDan) January 12, […]
A tsunami hit a number of beaches and coastal areas close to Indonesia’s Sunda strait, leaving at least 222 people dead and 843 injured, according to the Guardian. The tsunami is thought to have been triggered by a number of underwater landslides resulting from a volcanic eruption. The tsunami hit the coastlines of Java and […]
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