the.com/eruption
the planet clearing its throat with enough force to rewrite the sky.
means A sudden, violent outburst — most literally of lava, ash, and gas from a volcano, but also of anything that bursts forth abruptly, from rashes to riots.
from From Latin 'eruptionem,' a bursting forth, built from 'e-' (out) plus 'rumpere' (to break or burst) — the same verb that gives us 'rupture,' 'corrupt,' and 'interrupt.' At its root it simply means breaking out, whether that's a volcano splitting open or a pimple doing the same on a smaller, sadder scale.
- global chill
- Tambora's 1815 blast caused a year without summer
- sound record
- Krakatoa's roar was heard 3,000 miles away
- ash math
- Pinatubo cooled Earth half a degree for years
- buried alive
- Pompeii's victims were frozen mid-gesture by ash
- loudest ever
- some eruptions exceed 200 decibels, rupturing eardrums
mount vesuvius 79 ad — buried pompeii and herculaneum, killing thousands in seconds with pyroclastic flows
krakatoa 1883 — indonesian volcano whose explosion was heard 3000 miles away, killed 36000 people
mount st helens 1980 — washington state volcano that triggered a 540-million-ton lateral blast at 300 mph
tonga hunga ha'apai 2022 — underwater eruption near samoa that generated tsunami waves across the entire pacific