The eruption surged high into the sky 🌋🔥 A towering column of ash and gas rose rapidly upward, while superheated rock illuminated the clouds with an intense internal glow. The shockwave shaped the plume into rolling, turbulent layers, and the landscape below lay in the shadow of an immense release of energy. This is a major volcanic explosive eruption, where pressure from trapped gases inside rising magma is suddenly released. The blast sends ash, steam, and rock fragments high into the atmosp

Incredible footage of volcanic eruption of a dormant volcano in Ethiopia from a commercial plane. 🌋 The dormant giant exploded with a towering ash column, pyroclastic clouds, and volcanic lightning ripping through the plume like threads of white fire. The entire scene was illuminated by the rising sun… turning destruction into something surreal and almost otherworldly. A moment no one on that plane will ever forget and one the world has never seen until now. ✈️ | Otherworld Earth

🌪 It’s a Twister! Or Is It? 🤔 Ever spotted a swirling column of ash or tephra near Kīlauea’s lava fountains and thought, “Whoa, a tornado!”? Not quite. These whirlwinds—called puahiohio in ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi (the Hawaiian language)—are technically dust devils, or more precisely, ash devils, tephra devils, or lava devils, depending on the debris involved. 🔥 How do they form? Intense heat from lava or a recent eruption heats the air at ground surface. This hot air rises into the cooler air above it