On November 13th 1985, just after 9pm, the Nevado del Ruiz volcano in the northern Andes, also known as Cumanday, Tabuchía, ...
The massive landslide wiped out the town of Armero, killing about 25,000 people – nearly 70% of its population – in what is ...
Around the globe, volcanic giants continue their relentless dance with destruction and creation. These geological time bombs ...
Sergio Melendro was among hundreds of children missing after a volcanic eruption devastated Armero, Colombia, in 1985 and his mother Martha Lucía López still searches for him ...
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 ...
On Nov. 13, 2015, a series of coordinated terrorist attacks across the French capital of Paris claimed the lives of 130 ...
Preface: Essay on plate tectonics -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Entries A-Z -- Appendix A: Chronology of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions -- Appendix B: Eyewitness accounts of major ...