Indonesia's Mount Lewotobi Laki Laki erupted with giant ash and smoke plumes again Wednesday after forcing evacuations of ...

Story continues below this ad However, some volcanologists believe that Mount Etna did not experience a Strombolian eruption but rather a Plinian eruption, in which hot gas, ash, and rock can explode ...

As eruptions grow more explosive, they send ash and rock fragments flying further afield. At the more explosive end of the scale are Plinian eruptions. These include the famous eruption of Mount ...

As eruptions grow more explosive, they send ash and rock fragments flying further afield. At the more explosive end of the scale are Plinian eruptions. These include the famous eruption of Mount ...

I mean that it doesn't get any better for a volcanologist than to be able to go and get up close to a sub-plinian eruption," said McGimsey. "I remember pulling the cameras away from my face and just ...

The mushroom cloud that Pliny observed at 1 p.m. was typical of what is now known as a Plinian eruption, in tribute to his richly detailed testament. Dr. Scarpati said that the first currents had ...

In 1902, a plinian eruption from Santa Maria killed 5,000 people and produced ash for 19 days, with an eruption cloud reaching 27,000 metres. This eruption, one of the strongest of the 20th ...

This towering, umbrella-shaped plume was characteristic of what is now known as a Plinian eruption, named after Pliny's detailed descriptions. Starting at 2 p.m., Mount Vesuvius began to rain ...

this is known as a Plinian eruption). By 1 p.m., a cloud of thick, swirling ash blocked out the Sun. Ash then began to fall like snow at a rate of about six inches per hour, accumulating on rooftops ...