Sentence examples for most powerful eruptions from inspiring English sources

In 1912, the Novarupta Volcano exploded in one of the most powerful eruptions in recorded history, 10 times more violent than Mount St. Helens.

While X-class flares are the most powerful eruptions on the sun, the star also experiences more moderate M-class solar flares (which can supercharge Earth's aurora displays) and weaker C-class storms.

On the 10th and 11th it sent molten rock more than 40 kilometres into the sky in the most powerful eruption of the past 500 years.

That allows geologists to supplement the necessarily patchy records they build up by studying individual volcanoes with an independent record of eruptions that have been large enough to change the climate.Our briefing, marking the 200th anniversary of Tambora the most powerful eruption in modern history assesses the risk of similar events happening again, at almost any time.

Jupiter's colorful moon Io, the most volcanically active body in the solar system, has unleashed the most powerful eruption ever seen.

Local scientists' concerns that Indonesia's Mount Merapi was gearing up for its most powerful eruption in years were all but confirmed when the volcano began spewing hot ash on Tuesday, less than a day after a tsunami left scores of villagers dead or missing.

The most powerful volcanic eruption observed in historical times was an "outburst" eruption at Surt, observed by Earth-based astronomers on February 22 , 2001

The most powerful constitutional power was imperium.

ESCUINTLA, Guatemala (AP) — A long-simmering volcano exploded into a series of powerful eruptions outside one of Guatemala's most famous tourist attractions on Thursday, hurling thick clouds of ash nearly two miles high, spewing rivers of lava and prompting evacuation orders for more than 33,000 people.

Because seismicity is one of the most powerful tools for identifying volcanic processes that could precede phreatic eruptions (e.g., Chouet 1996; Roman and Cashman 2006), it is essential to investigate the spatial temporal evolution of earthquakes leading up to the 2014 phreatic eruption of Mount Ontake.

Hundreds of metres under one of Iceland's largest glaciers there are signs of an imminent volcanic eruption that could be one of the most powerful the country has seen in almost a century.