For a third straight day, residents of Kagoshima City are sweeping gray-white volcanic ash from rooftops, gutters, and car ...

There has been no change in the safe distance or sectoral recommendations for potential dangers related to Mount Merapi ...

Semeru volcano — the tallest volcano on Java at 3,676 meters — erupted on the afternoon of November 19, 2025, with pyroclastic flows racing at high speed more than 8.5 kilometers down its slopes, as ...

MANILA, Philippines — A powerful ash cloud from the Mayon volcano in the southern Philippines forced thousands of residents to evacuate as officials expanded danger zones and warned of ongoing ...

A man looks at a pyroclastic flow during the eruption of Mount Semeru in Lumajang, East Java, on November 19, 2025. (Photo credit: AGUS HARIANTO/AFP via Getty Images) Authorities raised the volcano's ...

A pyroclastic flow (also known as a pyroclastic density current or a pyroclastic cloud) is a fast-moving current of hot gas and volcanic matter (collectively known as tephra) that flows along the ...

Ashfall blanketed multiple areas in Albay on Saturday after a pyroclastic density current (PDC) descended from Mayon Volcano’s Mi‑isi Gully on the ...

Authorities in the Philippines have since banned travel within about a 3.7-mile radius of the Mayon volcano ...

Nearly 200,000 people in 124 villages in the northeastern part of the country were affected and over 5,400 fled massive plumes of ash that billowed from Mayon volcano over the weekend due to the ...

Volcanoes can look like small mountains or hills. A volcano is an opening in the Earth's crust that allows magma, hot ash and gases to escape. Composite volcanoes are the most common type of volcano.