Scientists have discovered that the scorching material spewed from a volcano during eruptions generates a layer of air between it and the ground, allowing it to surf along at extreme speeds, ...

There is no current danger to the population after a pyroclastic flow on Italy’s Mount Etna produced a huge plume of ash Monday, sending tourists running. The flow moved away from a group of tourists ...

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 ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Mount Merapi has spewed pyroclastic flows nine times overnight into early Monday, November 3, 2025. This phenomenon comes after the increasing intensity of rainfall in the area.

Volcanologist Professor Chris Jackson discovers evidence of the deadly pyroclastic flow. Volcanologist Professor Chris Jackson reveals the power of the deadly pyroclastic flow that had swept through ...

One of the leading killers during explosive volcanic eruptions is a family of superheated gas, ash, and debris known as pyroclastic density currents. These tumbling, turbulent paroxysms rush downslope ...

There was still no lava flow observed at the Mayon Volcano in Albay amid its continued intensified unrest under Alert Level 3 ...

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 ...

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 ...