A pyroclastic flow burst from Mount Etna’s summit on 2 June 2025 and raced down the volcano’s western flank while a ...

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 ...

Wednesday marks the 35th anniversary of the deadly eruption of Mount Unzen's Fugen Peak in Nagasaki Prefecture, southwestern ...

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 ...

A pyroclastic flow (also known as a pyroclastic density current or a pyroclastic cloud) is a fast-moving current of hot gas and volcanic matter (collectively known as tephra) that flows along the ...

An ongoing pyroclastic density current (PDC) event, locally known as uson, was recorded at Mayon Volcano on Sunday afternoon, ...

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 ...

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 ...

An explosion on the slopes of Stromboli sent an avalanche of pyroclastic flow rushing down the side of the Italian volcano on Monday (Nov. 16). The stronger-than-usual explosion was captured on ...