How loud can sound really get? The human ear can safely hear up to around 120 decibels. Beyond that, it starts to hurt. At ...

The 1883 Krakatoa volcano erupted with a force of 200 megatons of TNT. By comparison, the bomb that destroyed the Japanese city of Hiroshima in 1945 had a force of 20 kilotons, or nearly 10,000 times ...

When the sixth-strongest earthquake ever recorded hit Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula last week, it triggered tsunami warnings around the world as waves rippled across the Pacific as far as the U.S., ...

The study of volcanic eruptions and their atmospheric effects offers critical insights into both natural hazard assessment and atmospheric dynamics. Explosive volcanic events not only discharge ...

A volcano in the central Philippines erupted early Tuesday morning, sending a plume of ash about 2.5 miles into the sky and forcing authorities to suspend school in four villages due to ashfall. The ...