A volcano has erupted in Japan sending a huge ash cloud 16,000ft into the air and launching boulders nearly a mile, with residents warned they may have to evacuate. Sakurajima, a stratovolcano in the ...

The most explosive volcanic eruptions spit out a fast-moving and incredibly destructive mass of material known as a pyroclastic flow.

Shocking new footage has shown tourists atop Mount Etna sprinting for safety after clouds of volcanic ash more than four miles high erupted this morning. A portion of the famous volcano's southeastern ...

Hundreds of thousands of Americans have been put on alert for a major volcano which could erupt in the coming weeks. Mount Spurr has seen increased activity in recent months, with regular earthquakes ...

The Landsat 9 satellite captured the eruption on Mount Semeru Many residents have had to evacuate the area The pyroclastic flows from the eruption turned into "muddy lahars" Indonesia's Mount Semeru ...

A HUGE Indonesian volcano has erupted and sent a massive ash plume 54,000ft into the sky. The Australia Volcanic Ash Advisory Centre (VAAC) has issued a red aviation warning. Mount Semeru’s first ...

An Indonesian volcano has erupted and spewed an enormous 54,000ft ash cloud, causing Australia to trigger a red flight safety warning. Mount Semeru erupted on Wednesday and the country's volcanology ...

Geologists have determined why — unlike in the neighbouring town of Pompeii — the inhabitants of the ancient Roman town of Herculaneum were not well-preserved by the eruption of the volcano Vesuvius ...

Nearly 2,000 years after a young man died in the Vesuvius volcanic eruption, scientists have discovered that his brain was preserved when it turned to glass in an extremely hot cloud of ash.

Guatemala's Fuego volcano erupted at about noon local time (18:00 GMT) on Sunday. It is one of Central America's most active volcanoes but Sunday's eruption caused more fatalities than any of those ...