A pyroclastic flow burst from Mount Etna’s summit on 2 June 2025 and raced down the volcano’s western flank while a 6.5-kilometer ash plume climbed above the crater, forcing tourists on the upper ...

A superheated torrent of gas, rock, and volcanic debris tore 4 kilometers down Mayon volcano’s Mi-isi Gully in early June 2026, marking the longest pyroclastic density current recorded during the ...

On September 16, 2026, the Volcanic Eruption Prediction and Observation Committee released an evaluation regarding the ...

Guatemala’s Fuego volcano erupted explosively on June 3, sending hot gas and rock racing downhill in what’s known as a pyroclastic flow. At least 69 people were killed. Emergency officials are trying ...

The discovery of the driving force behind the world's deadliest volcanic events could help improve forecasting of their devastating effects, new research suggests. The findings reveal the mechanism ...

Pyroclastic surges are lethal hazards from volcanoes that exhibit enormous destructiveness through large dynamic pressures of 100–102 kilopascal inside flows that are capable of obliterating ...

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 ...

When Guatemala’s Volcán de Fuego erupted in June 2018, it sent a billowing hot cloud of gas, ash and rock careening down the slope of the mountain. In the many smartphone videos of the eruption, the ...

Recent photographs and video from the devastating eruption of Fuego volcano in Guatemala show people stood watching and filming hot, cloud-like flows of gas, ash and volcanic material (known as ...