Scientists have discovered that the scorching material spewed from a volcano during eruptions generates a layer of air between it and the ground, allowing it to surf along at extreme speeds, ...

After an eruption, DIY cushions of gas help searing torrents of gas, ash, and rock spread miles from their source within a matter of minutes. Pyroclastic flows contain a deadly combination of hot rock ...

Scientists think they’ve figured out how pyroclastic flows, fast-moving bringers of death during volcanic events, can travel such incredible distances and speeds despite the friction between the ...

The skeleton has been unearthed at Herculaneum. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The skeleton of a man killed by the deadly ...

TEMPO.CO, Yogyakarta - Geological Disaster Technology Research and Development Center (BPPTKG) in Yogyakarta announced that Mount Merapi has again spewed pyroclastic clouds in the past week from ...

On Sunday, Guatemala's Volcán de Fuego — "Volcano of Fire" — erupted violently, spewing ash nearly four miles into the air and burying villages under an avalanche-like phenomenon called a pyroclastic ...

Guatemala has been hit by a super-heated pyroclastic cloud almost a week after one of the country’s volcanic eruptions killed at least 110 people and left 200 others missing. The fragments of rock and ...

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — A cloud of ash that climbed more than 2.5-mile-high (4-kilometer) from Tungurahua volcano on Monday has affected a third of Ecuador’s provinces and forced the suspension of ...

The eruption of the Fuego volcano—or volcano of fire—in Guatemala on Sunday and the flows that followed have killed more than 60 people so far, according to authorities. The volcano is one of the most ...

Mount Sinabung in Indonesia has been exploding with ash and debris since early June, now in its fifth year of activity since the long-dormant volcano came back online after hundreds of years of ...

Mount Vesuvius rises over the ruins of the ancient Roman city of Pompeii. In A.D. 79, Mount Vesuvius erupted, destroying Pompeii and the city of Herculaneum, which was even closer to the volcano's ...