Albay province, Philippines – Inside the gymnasium-turned-shelter in Daraga, families sleep on cardboard mats between folding ...
Pyroclastic density currents (PDCs) are high-energy, ground-hugging flows of hot gas and fragmented volcanic material that pose one of the greatest lethal volcanic hazards. Their dynamics are governed ...
A group of scientists from Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa Massey University recently co-published an article on the hazard impacts of pyroclastic density currents. Pyroclastic density currents are ...
Avalanches of ash, gas and rock that cascade downhill during volcanic eruptions may be even more dangerous than scientists had realized. Pulses of high pressure form within these slides, known as ...
Roughly 50 kilometers separate two of Central America’s most dangerous volcanoes, and both are erupting. At Santa Maria, the ...
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 ...
Pyroclastic surges are lethal hazards from volcanoes that exhibit enormous destructiveness through large dynamic pressures of 10 0-10 2 kilopascal inside flows that are capable of obliterating ...
When volcanoes erupt, pinpointing the regions at high risk for lethal hazards and deciding whether or not to evacuate a resistant population comprise the most difficult problems faced by hazards ...