Sentence examples for a colossal eruption from inspiring English sources

Astronomer Franck Marchis of the University of California, Berkeley, and his colleagues were monitoring Io at the 10-meter Keck II Telescope on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, when they got lucky: A small hot spot on 20 February 2001 spread into a colossal eruption two nights later.

A colossal eruption.

A volcanic explosion great enough to score six on the index happens, on average, about every century - Pinatubo in the Philippines hosted the last in 1991, while a thousand years or more may separate the colossal eruptions deserving of a VEI7.

This image shows the Earth to scale with a colossal solar filament eruption from the sun on Aug. 31, 2012 as seen by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft.

Eruptions much smaller than Pinatubo didn't seem powerful enough to put a lot of debris into the stratosphere, but atmospheric scientist Susan Solomon of the University of Colorado, Boulder, and her colleagues report online today in Science that less-than-colossal eruptions did just that in recent years.

Back in 2010 the eruption of Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull volcano caused havoc, producing a colossal ash cloud which stopped air traffic across Europe for days on end.

What a colossal failure!

Safety is a colossal issue.

A colossal and inspirational figure.

That is a colossal achievement.

This was a colossal understatement.