Over the past four centuries, volcanoes have killed more than a quarter million people, most of whom perished in a handful of epic disasters. Some volcanoes threatened populations with torrents of ...

In January 2022, one of the most powerful volcanic eruptions in recorded history rocked the Pacific islands of Tonga; first-person accounts of the disaster and eyewitness footage reveal the ...

In September 1994, Rabaul volcano on the Papua New Guinean island of New Britain erupted. "The death toll could have been many thousands, because about 75 percent of the houses collapsed," said Dr.