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 ...
Pyroclastic density currents (PDCs) represent some of the most formidable and complex volcanic phenomena, characterised by a turbulent mixture of solid particles and gases that surge down slopes at ...
A superheated torrent of gas, rock, and volcanic debris tore 4 kilometers down Mayon volcano’s Mi-isi Gully in early June 2026, marking the longest pyroclastic density current recorded during the ...
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 ...
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 ...
Residents of Camalig, Daraga, and Guinobatan in Albay province woke in June 2026 to skies so black with volcanic ash that streetlights stayed on past dawn. A pyroclastic flow had torn roughly 4 ...