The Herculaneum papyri consist of about 800 rolled-up Greek scrolls that were carbonized during the 79 CE volcanic eruption that buried the ancient Roman town, according to the organizers of the ...

In 79 CE, the active volcanic system in southern Italy known as Somma-Vesuvius erupted, burying the small Roman town of ...

Forget Italy’s most famous active volcano, Mt. Vesuvius, which destroyed Pompei in 79 AD. The most dangerous volcanic threat ...

That’s about when the Beemerville Volcano erupted in Wantage, give or take six million years, according to geologists. So much about New Jersey is familiar — the Jersey Shore, traffic jug ...

Mount Vesuvius is the only active volcano left on Europe's mainland, while Pompeii, which fell victim to one of Mount Vesuvius' eruptions in A.D. 79, is a UNESCO World Heritage city that was ...

Sep. 24, 2024 — A mysterious type of iron-rich magma entombed within extinct volcanoes is likely abundant with rare earth elements and could offer a new way to source these in-demand metals ...

New Jersey was once home to a fiery volcano roughly the size of Mount St. Helens – that sits in the same county as a newly mapped fault line. Rutan Hill, in Wantage, NJ, appears to be and is ...

Here’s hoping it’s nothing to blow your lid over. A normally quiet “high threat” volcano in Washington state has been rumbling at a record rate — prompting an alert from geologists who ...

Indonesia’s Disaster Management Agency says 9 dead in volcanic eruption at Mount Lewotobi Laki Laki MAUMERE, Indonesia -- Indonesia’s Disaster Management Agency says 9 dead in volcanic ...

Among the snow-capped volcanoes of the Pacific Northwest, Mount Adams gets relatively little love. There are more glamorous volcanoes to climb (Mount Rainier) or to ski (Mount Hood) or that have ...

MANILA, Philippines — A volcanic tremor at Taal Volcano persisted for 10 hours and 30 minutes from Saturday, October 12, to Sunday, October 13, according to Phivolcs. While Taal Volcano did not ...

MANILA, Philippines — Taal Volcano has been experiencing extended periods of phreatic eruption events over the past three days, according to state seismologists at Phivolcs. From October 13 to ...