The painting “The Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum” by English artist John Martin, depicting the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. Courtesy of John Martin via Wikimedia Commons   Despite ...

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Greece's government has just declared a state of emergency on the island of Santorini, as earthquakes shake the island multiple times a day and sometimes only minutes apart.

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More than 3 billion years ago, when the Moon’s volcanic mare (the dark lunar “seas”) were formed, the Moon was rife with ...

The world’s largest atomic bomb was exploded by the Russians north of the Arctic Circle in 1961. It was equivalent to 2,500 Hiroshima A-bombs. The fireball was 5 miles in diameter and could ...

See 12 of the week’s most interesting images from around the world, as selected by Washington Post photo editors.