The results of yesterday's explosive eruption at Colima appear to be the destruction of a summit dome that started forming in 2007. The new summit crater formed by the January 6 and 30 eruptions is ...

Restoration works on the vital Kokopo–Rabaul Highway are now underway, with teams from the Kokopo District and the Provincial Works Department working to reopen access following severe damage caused ...

Step aboard B-25 Mitchell SNAFU (41-30054) for its last daring raid on Rabaul, South Pacific, and see if you could survive ...

In September 1994, Rabaul volcano on the Papua New Guinean island of New Britain erupted. "The death toll could have been many thousands, because about 75 percent of the houses collapsed," said Dr.

Yesterday we had two eruptions grab everyone's attention - one from the area that has had everyone's attention between Iceland's Bárðarbunga and Askja in the Holuhraun lava field and one unexpected ...

Aug 31: An earthquake measuring 6.8 magnitude shook Rabaul, Papua New Guinea, as per United States Geological Survey (USGS). Rabaul is a township in East New Britain province situated on the island of ...

In the bitterest days on Guadalcanal a year ago, Marines used to refer to the frequent runs of Jap destroyers carrying men and supplies down the Solomons as the “Bougainville Express.” Last week the ...

A judge has significantly reduced the number of manslaughter charges against the Australian owner of a ferry that sank off Papua New Guinea more than four years ago, killing scores of people. Peter ...

In 1943, the Japanese stronghold of Rabaul presented a formidable obstacle to Allied forces advancing toward the Philippines. Operation Cartwheel, the carefully orchestrated strategy to neutralize ...

On Christmas, only ten days after the landing at Arawe (TIME, Dec. 27), General Douglas MacArthur sent forth his second invasion fleet to New Britain, Jap rampart island in the Southwest Pacific.

After days of anticipation and false starts, the geological unrest in Iceland finally resulted in an eruption in the wee hours of Friday morning, Iceland time. According to Iceland Civil Protection, ...