YAMAGUCHI—An eruption of Mount Aso in Kumamoto Prefecture 90,000 years ago created a pyroclastic flow that traveled 170 kilometers north to the Sabagawa river here, the longest such distance recorded ...

Volcanoes are notoriously deadly, but there’s no more frightening a way to meet your own personalized doom than via a pyroclastic flow. These fast-moving ferocious fires look more like summoned demons ...

May 8, 1902, began as a sunny day in Martinique, an island in the Caribbean, with only a column of steam rising above Mount Pelée. When the mountain, an active volcano, suddenly exploded. The first ...

Bali volcano: What is pyroclastic flow? Mount Agung to spew out hot rock, ash and gas BALI’s largest volcano Mount Agung could send out a devastating flow of hot rock, ash and gas if it erupts. But ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rebecca Williams has received funding from NERC. Dave McGarvie does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and ...

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 ...

Professor David Rothery, Professor of Planetary Geosciences at The Open University, was first keen to clear up a misconception. He said: “The cause of most deaths at the current eruption of Fuego ...

Santa Maria (which is known also as Santiaguito) in Guatemala put on quite a show, with impressive explosive eruptions that produced numerous pyroclastic flows (also known as pyroclastic density ...

As listeners we so often typecast musicians and music labels. Artists are pigeonholed into silos: classical, jazz, rock, blues, pop, etc.. Go into any record store (if you can find a brick & mortar ...