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 ...

When a supervolcano erupts, it spews rivers of hot ash and gas across immense distances, in some cases travelling more than 100 miles in slow, dense currents. This is according to a new study, which ...

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 ...

Guatemala Fuego volcano eruption: What is pyroclastic flow? THE Guatemala volcano eruption has killed at least 25 people after a pyroclastic flow flooded houses. Fuego has left charred bodies strewn ...

Geologists have determined why — unlike in the neighbouring town of Pompeii — the inhabitants of the ancient Roman town of Herculaneum were not well-preserved by the eruption of the volcano Vesuvius ...