A powerful volcanic eruption in Indonesia sent residents fleeing as Mount Semeru released a towering ash column and pyroclastic flow - a fast-moving, superheated cloud of dense volcanic gas, ash and ...

Dozens of people have died, hundreds are missing and many more homes were destroyed after separate volcanic eruptions in ...

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 ...

A volcanic eruption in Italy left people scurrying for cover from what officials are saying is a pyroclastic flow. Several videos circulating online show people running as smoke from the side of Mount ...

Mount Etna erupted on Monday (June 2), sending a flow of hot material racing down the volcano as a massive dark cloud of ash rose high into the sky above Sicily. Live Science has rounded up some of ...

The investigative minds at How to Survive profile the supersonic heat and suffocating ash clouds of a pyroclastic flow to find the only path to safety.

SALEM, Montserrat -- Scientists have learned a lot from the Soufriere Hills volcano in the five years it has been erupting, destroying life and property -- lessons they hope will save lives in the ...

A young man was lying in his bed when a viciously hot cloud of ash swept down from the erupting Mount Vesuvius and turned his brain to glass almost 2,000 years ago. That is the theory Italian ...