Standing at 12,300 feet, Guatemala's Volcan de Fuego is among the most active in Central America and last erupted in June ...

In A.D. 79 a man's brain turned into glass, and researchers now might have an explanation as to how it happened ...

On the morning of May 8, following a powerful explosive eruption, a turbulent cloud of superheated gas and rock fragments called a pyroclastic flow careened down the mountainside at nearly 300 ...

In the shadow of Mount Vesuvius, a young man lay in bed as the world around him erupted into chaos. It was AD 79, and the volcano had unleashed its fury, burying the Roman towns of Pompeii and ...

When Mount Vesuvius -- near the modern-day Italian city of Naples -- erupted in 79 AD, the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum were buried in a fast-moving blanket of rock and ash called a pyroclastic ...

The research team used X-ray imaging and electron microscopy work out that the brain must have been heated to at least 510C before cooling rapidly. The pyroclastic flow is believed to have reached ...

Shard found inside a skull at Herculaneum was created as a result of a superheated cloud coming from the volcano, scientists prove ...

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 ...

If Mount Spurr does erupt, it could produce explosive plumes of ash, destructive mudslides called lahars and avalanches of hot gas, ash and rock called pyroclastic flows, which would race down the ...

Authorities were monitoring pyroclastic flows — fast-moving currents of hot ash, gas and rock fragments that descend the slopes of a volcano, Conred spokesman Laureano said. The state-run ...