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 ...

One of the leading killers during explosive volcanic eruptions is a family of superheated gas, ash, and debris known as pyroclastic density currents. These tumbling, turbulent paroxysms rush downslope ...

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 ...

Heather Handley receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Recent photographs and video from the devastating eruption of Fuego volcano in Guatemala show people stood watching and filming ...

Even at the the far edge of the mud and ash that came from the Pompeii volcano’s explosion, the heat was sufficient to instantly kill everyone, even those inside their homes. And that is how the ...