As red-hot volcanic rocks rained down on the ancient city of Pompeii in 79 CE, the inhabitants of one house made the fatal ...

In a house in the ruins of Pompeii, archeologists have discovered evidence that a family of four attempted to barricade a ...

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 ...

These pyroclastic flows, or pyroclastic density currents ... Made up of chunks of rock, dense ash, and searing gasses these flows race over the landscape destroying anything in their path.

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 ...

Pyroclastic flow. Hot gas, ash and rock mixed together to make a deadly cloud that flows down the side of the volcano. It’s not all bad. They can also be tourist attractions! The lava and ash ...

There is an increased chance of a hazardous eruption, including explosive activity, lava flows, and pyroclastic density currents. Kanlaon, which straddles the provinces of Negros Oriental and ...