A pyroclastic flow burst from Mount Etna’s summit on 2 June 2025 and raced down the volcano’s western flank while a 6.5-kilometer ash plume climbed above the crater, forcing tourists on the upper ...
About 7,700 years ago, Mount Mazama’s climactic eruption pushed pyroclastic flows as far as 43 miles down every valley ...
Guatemala’s Fuego volcano erupted explosively on June 3, sending hot gas and rock racing downhill in what’s known as a pyroclastic flow. At least 69 people were killed. Emergency officials are trying ...
The discovery of the driving force behind the world's deadliest volcanic events could help improve forecasting of their devastating effects, new research suggests. The findings reveal the mechanism ...
Dumping literal tons of hot volcanic material down a lab flume may finally have revealed how searing mixtures of hot gas and rock travel so far from volcanic eruptions. These pyroclastic flows can ...
Large-scale volcanic deposit fluidization by dilute pyroclastic density currents There is increasing evidence that fine-grained deposits of pyroclastic density currents can be remobilized on a large ...
When Guatemala’s Volcán de Fuego erupted in June 2018, it sent a billowing hot cloud of gas, ash and rock careening down the slope of the mountain. In the many smartphone videos of the eruption, the ...