On November 13th 1985, just after 9pm, the Nevado del Ruiz volcano in the northern Andes, also known as Cumanday, Tabuchía, ...

Forty years after the Nevado del Ruiz volcano wiped out the town of Armero, the ghosts of Colombia's deadliest tragedy still ...

Around the globe, volcanic giants continue their relentless dance with destruction and creation. These geological time bombs ...

In 1985 the Nevado del Ruiz volcano triggered a mudslide that wiped out the town of Armero, Colombia in one of the 20th century's worst natural disasters. All these years later the ghosts of ...

Preface: Essay on plate tectonics -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Entries A-Z -- Appendix A: Chronology of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions -- Appendix B: Eyewitness accounts of major ...

Forty years after the Nevado del Ruiz volcano wiped out the town of Armero, the ghosts of Colombia's deadliest tragedy still haunt its slopes, and families are still searching for lost children.

In 1883, Krakatoa exploded over Indonesia, unleashing the deadliest eruption in modern memory. A gallery of some of its most spectacular successors suggests that a similar disaster may lurk beneath ...