On retirement from public life, Wilmar Eliaser Simandjorang found a quiet place on a hillside overlooking Lake Toba, on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, to write about this landscape sacred to the ...

A single underwater cable the size of a garden hose connected Tonga to the outside world—until a natural disaster struck. And ...

Fountains from the south vent at Kilauea's summit crater soared 1,300 feet (400 meters) into the air, the U.S. Geological ...

HONOLULU — Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano has been shooting lava from its summit crater at semiregular intervals since late last ...

Volcanoes are among the most powerful forces of nature. Throughout history, some eruptions have shaken the Earth, changed the weather, and even affected human life for years. Scientists use the ...

In Italy, a super volcano outside of Naples is stirring in a way it hasn't for centuries. And hundreds of thousands of people live right by it.

The USGS said on its website following the quake in July: "Following the M8.8 Russian Kamchatka Peninsula Earthquake, the ...

Instead of white sand, black sand, or even popcorn sand, the beach has sand with a distinctive green color. Related: 148 Best ...

In September 2025, an X post (archived) viewed over 1 million times claimed the world's biggest meteorite impact crater was in Mexico and included a video of the purported site. The video and claim ...

On August 27, 1883, the eruption of Krakatoa in Indonesia produced the loudest sound ever recorded in human history. At 10:02 am, a cataclysmic explosion was heard over 4,800 kilometres away, from ...

An offshore earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.4 hit off a southern Philippine on Friday morning - and concern has ...