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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is a false-colour satellite image of lava flowing from the Indonesian volcano that has already killed more than 250 people. The image, taken from the ASTER instrument on Nasa's Terra satellite, ...