A restive volcano in central Philippines briefly erupted Tuesday, spewing a 4.5-kilometer (2.8-mile) ash plume and debris into the sky as its rumblings were heard nearby.

A Plinian eruption is an extremely powerful type of volcanic eruption in which gas, ash, and rock are ejected high into the atmosphere. These eruptions are named after the Roman statesman Pliny ...

life-threatening Plinian eruptions with little or no warning. Though volcanologists study all types of volcanoes, the latter kind is of greatest concern since it is capable of killing thousands of ...

In 2002 the volcano shot more than 15 million cubic yards ... The recent eruptions hadn't been classic, spouting-out-the-top types, so-called Plinian eruptions, but rather fissure eruptions ...

The volcano, which sadly didn't spew gold ... "A major south-flank collapse during a 1964 Plinian explosion produced a scarp in which a 'Young Sheveluch' dome began to form in 1980.

This story appears in the September 2007 issue of National Geographic magazine. When the first thunderous boom echoed across the plain of Campania, quickly followed by a blistering hail of ...

We hope to determine whether the volcano’s current moderate explosive activity will culminate in a Plinian eruption. To mitigate the risk associated with Plinian eruptions at Popocatépetl and for ...