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How Do Volcanoes Erupt, and How Scientists Study and Predict These Eruptions

ENVIRONMENT & CLIMATE 01.16.2020 01:46 AM

The mechanics of how volcanoes erupt is rather complicated, and there are stages that are critical to studying and predicting it. A volcano is like a tunnel into the earth’s how interior, where molten rock flows. Another thing is that magma flow generated magnetic force, and has effects.

Death Toll Increases as New Zealand's White Island Volcano Erupts

12.11.2019 10:31 AM

Death could have been prevented if early warning has been given. A volcanic eruption on New Zealand's White Island is the cause of the death of at least five people with more than 30 people wounded.

ISS Astronauts Witnessed Raikoke's Recent Explosion

07.06.2019 10:30 AM

Japan's Raikoke volcano in the Kuril Islands last erupted in 1924 and has been silent since then, until a few days ago when nearly a century's silence was broken by a massive eruption with such high velocity.

Unusual Volcanic Rocks Lift Lid on Risks of Less-Studied Eruptions

05.24.2019 09:44 AM

During powerful eruptions, eruption columns formed, and collapse to form fast-moving avalanches of super-heated rock, ash, and gas

Volcanic Eruption Could Trigger The Great Dying of the Earth

04.23.2019 09:02 AM

The scientists believe that the biggest mass extinction that ever happened on earth was caused by a huge volcanic eruption triggered by climate change.

Scientists Claims Climate Change That Wiped Out 95% of Life on Earth Before Dinosaurs Came

04.22.2019 16:49 PM

Scientists have found out that climate change, triggered by a volcanic eruption, has caused the biggest mass extinction that the Earth has ever seen.

Pink And White Terraces May Exist 10 To 15 Meters Below The Surface In New Zealand

06.19.2017 05:45 AM

Two researchers recently pointed out that the lost Pink and White Terraces lies 10 to 15 meters below the surface of New Zealand.

Ancient Meteorite Triggered Cataclysmic Volcanic Eruptions on Earth

05.04.2017 15:48 PM

Scientists found that meteorite that hit the earth more than a billion years ago had triggered a long-lived volcanic eruption on Earth, changing the surface and climate.

'Ghost Villages' Found In Indonesia After Volcano Eruption

02.21.2017 05:15 AM

Several villages were placed in silence after Mount Sinabung erupted in 2012. There were dusty kitchens from crumbling houses, vehicles overgrown by vegetation and volcanic ash covered almost everything.

Japan's Volcanos Threaten Nuclear Reactors, Expert Warns

10.17.2014 18:47 PM

One volcano expert is warning that Japan's massive 2011 earthquake--which damaged the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant and caused a nuclear crisis--could cause large volcanic eruptions in the coming years, yet he could not say when people could expect the eruptions to happen.

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