After an eruption, DIY cushions of gas help searing torrents of gas, ash, and rock spread miles from their source within a matter of minutes. Pyroclastic flows contain a deadly combination of hot rock ...

Avalanches of ash, gas and rock that cascade downhill during volcanic eruptions may be even more dangerous than scientists had realized. Pulses of high pressure form within these slides, known as ...

Scientists think they’ve figured out how pyroclastic flows, fast-moving bringers of death during volcanic events, can travel such incredible distances and speeds despite the friction between the ...

MANILA, Philippines — Since showing increased activity earlier this year, Mayon Volcano generated its "largest" pyroclastic density current so far, with an ash plume reaching up to 1,000 meters on ...

Guatemala’s Volcan de Fuego — Volcano of Fire — erupted spectacularly Sunday, shooting a plume of ash and gas nearly 6 miles into the sky and spreading ash and debris across towns and farms more than ...

MANILA, Philippines — A surge in pyroclastic density currents has been detected at Mayon Volcano in Albay in the past 24 hours, although these do not indicate escalation to a stronger eruptive phase, ...

Dozens of people have been killed, and with many more missing, after Volcán de Fuego (Fuego) in Guatemala erupted on June 3 2018. In recent years, Fuego has regularly ejected small gas and ash ...

Volcanoes are increasingly recognized as agents and recorders of global climate variability, although deciphering the linkages between planetary climate and volcanism is still in its infancy. The ...

The eruption of the Fuego volcano—or volcano of fire—in Guatemala on Sunday and the flows that followed have killed more than 60 people so far, according to authorities. The volcano is one of the most ...

Guatemala’s Volcán de Fuego explosively erupted on Sunday for 16 and a half hours. The devastating event left approximately 25 people dead and nearly 300 injured, a number that is expected to rise.

Mount Sinabung in Indonesia has been exploding with ash and debris since early June, now in its fifth year of activity since the long-dormant volcano came back online after hundreds of years of ...