There are many ways for a human being to die after a volcano erupts, and a blast like the one Vesuvius unleashed ... building up from below, in the magma chamber, to blow a hole to the surface.

This fracture let both seawater and magma gush into the zone between ... roughly on par with historic eruptions like Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE and Mount St. Helens in 1980. It released 10 cubic ...

Calderas, like Mount Vesuvius, consist of a large, cauldron-like hollow that forms after the emptying of a magma chamber during an eruption. Etna is a composite volcano, also called stratovolcano ...

I’m in Italy visiting a very famous volcano called Mount Vesuvius. A volcano is an opening in the Earth’s crust, which allows hot magma, ash and gases to escape from below the surface.

I’m in Italy visiting a very famous volcano called Mount Vesuvius. A volcano is an opening in the Earth’s crust, which allows hot magma, ash and gases to escape from below the surface.