Think Again: The loudest sound ever recorded wasn’t from any nuclear blast – it was heard 3,000 miles away and circled Earth four times

The loudest sound ever heard came from a natural event. The 1883 Krakatoa volcanic eruption in Indonesia registered an ...
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What Is The Loudest Sound Ever Recorded In History?

How loud can sound really get? The human ear can safely hear up to around 120 decibels. Beyond that, it starts to hurt. At 150 decibels, eardrums can rupture. But history has witnessed sounds far ...

Think Again: Volcanic eruptions can cool Earth – but the impact isn’t so simple; here is why

Volcanic eruptions can influence global temperatures, with explosive events injecting gases like sulfur dioxide into the ...
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Hawaii's Kilauea volcano massive eruption spews large chunks of debris into air

The Kilauea volcano in Hawaii erupted on Tuesday morning, spitting out football-sized particles into the air. Fallout of the particles were reported at overlooks in the Hawai'i Volcanoes National park ...

The Explosion Sounded Like Thunder in the Distance. By Morning, 1,700 People Were Dead.

“It remains very, very fresh in my mind,” Anthony Bangsi, who was a missionary in Subum at the time, and one of only a few who survived the environmental disaster, told National Geographic years later ...
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What’s inside Mexico’s Popocatépetl? Scientists obtain first 3D images of the whole volcano

POPOCATÉPETL VOLCANO, Mexico (AP) — In the predawn darkness, a team of scientists climbs the slope of Mexico’s Popocatépetl volcano, one of the world’s most active and whose eruption could affect ...