Using samples from trees buried and preserved by the volcanic ash and state-of-the-art radiocarbon dating by John ... together to refine the estimated date of Ilopango’s eruption to somewhere around A ...

But the identities of the volcanoes were unknown. In the past, some scientists had considered Ilopango a possible suspect for the 536 eruption. It had clearly erupted sometime between the third ...

Byzantine historian Procopius in 536 ... whitish volcanic tephra named Tierra Blanca Joven (TBJ), or “white young earth,” show that El Salvador’s Ilopango experienced a massive eruption ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. "And it came about during this year that a most dread portent ...

In the summer of A.D. 536, a mysterious cloud appeared ... that the cause of all this misery might be a volcanic eruption, probably from Ilopango in El Salvador, which filled Earth's atmosphere ...

Aerosols blasted into the stratosphere by the eruption settled as far ... and its architecture and art flourished. But then Ilopango, the volcano slumbering 10km (6 miles) east of the Chalchuapa ...

Large areas of El Salvador and its Maya sites show a layer of ash from the Tierra Blanca Joven eruption of the Ilopango volcano, which would have rendered areas within 80 km of the vent ...

The Ilopango Caldera in El Salvador is considered one of the most dangerous volcanoes on Earth. Not only is it only about 10 kilometers from San Salvador City, but over 3,000,000 people live within 30 ...

Fifteen hundred years ago, Ilopango, a caldera volcano in what is now El Salvador, erupted in one of the largest events of its kind in recorded history. Known as the Tierra Blanca Joven eruption ...