which erupted violently in the 1990s—burying the capital city of Plymouth under layers of ash and pyroclastic flow. Now largely abandoned, the island tells a story of nature's unstoppable force ...

The eruption, which lasted nearly an hour and ended at around 6:47am, was described as “moderately explosive” and triggered pyroclastic density currents (PDCs) – fast-moving flows of hot gas ...

The pyroclastic flow and volcanic ash spewed out by the Aira caldera in southern Kagoshima Prefecture in Kyushu was 1.5 times larger than previous research estimates and reached a depth of about ...

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YAMAGUCHI—An eruption of Mount Aso in Kumamoto Prefecture 90,000 years ago created a pyroclastic flow that traveled 170 kilometers north to the Sabagawa river here, the longest such distance ...