This method has already been used twice in eruption crises: once at Merapi in 2006 and in Montserrat in 2006-2009 to quickly and effectively create pyroclastic flow maps. "I expect this method to ...

Now, researchers may have found out why: A new study published today in Nature Geoscience reports that a member of this family, the pyroclastic flow, is able to move so fast and so far because it ...

It is very reminiscent of the debris fans from dome-collapse pyroclastic flows at Soufriere Hills on Montserrat, a similar volcano to Paluweh. There also seems to be a health steam plume covering ...

Just to keep everyone on their toes, Soufriere Hills on Montserrat in the West Indies erupted today. The eruption produced a number of explosions and a pyroclastic flow that originated from the ...

When this supervolcano erupted 18.8 million years ago, it flooded parts of all three states with river-like currents of hot ash and gas called pyroclastic flows. These tides of volcanic material ...

Pyroclastic flows are the signature fireworks of the most explosive kinds of volcanic eruptions. These mixtures of ash, lava blebs and broiling gas are normally at temperatures between 200°C ...

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 ...

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