However, lava and gas combined account for less than 2% of recorded volcanic fatalities. The largest loss of life to volcanic gas was in Cameroon in 1986, when more than 1,500 people were killed ...
Scientists said that the main hazard from the eruption on Monday was increased levels of volcanic gas. By Amanda Holpuch Kilauea, one of the world’s most active volcanoes, erupted early Monday ...
Kilauea was erupting within Halemaʻumaʻu crater in the summit caldera, within a closed area of Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park, as of 6:30 a.m. local time, after it first erupted around 2:00 a.m.
The USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory has downgraded Kilauea’s alert level to watch and its aviation color code to orange as the summit eruption within Halemaumau crater stabilizes.
In 1815, Mount Tambora in Indonesia unleashed the most powerful volcanic eruption in recorded history. The sheer force of the blast sent a colossal plume of particles high into the atmosphere, which ...