eruption

Since its founding, the United States has suffered from eruptions of political violence from time to time.

The fire came within a few feet of the Villa, famously a re-creation of an ancient Roman country home that was buried beneath the huge volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius.

The movie, with its impressive visual effects, depicts an eruption along the San Andreas fault line that wreaks havoc along the West Coast, endangering Los Angeles and San Francisco.

New evidence suggests people returned to live among the ruins of Pompeii after the ancient Roman city was devastated by a volcanic eruption.

Like a lot of that administration, in the rear-view mirror it looks like a holding pattern in between two eruptions of widening chaos.