The superheated avalanche tore down Mayon Volcano’s southeastern flank in minutes, traveling 5.08 kilometers from the summit before grinding to a halt in a drainage channel above the farming ...

MANILA, Philippines – Mayon Volcano in Albay continued emitting ash and volcanic materials on Thursday, triggering pyroclastic density current (PDC), locally known as “uson” anew, state volcanologists ...

MANILA, Philippines — The state seismologists bureau reported “frequent incandescent rockfall and numerous pyroclastic density current (PDC) events” in the Mayon volcano’s Miisi and Bonga Gullies.

Guatemala's Volcán de Fuego has erupted into its most explosive mode of 2026, sending pyroclastic flows — fast-moving avalanches of superheated gas, ash, and rock capable of traveling up to 435 mph ...

A pyroclastic density current tumbles anew toward the foot of the restive Mayon Volcano on May 8, 2026. The volcano has been restive for five months, forcing thousands of Albayanos into temporary ...

Just a couple hundred deaths in that same time period, according to Williams. Williams stressed that speed of these pyroclastic currents was what made them especially dangerous: They can tumble at ...

Make this your preferred source to get more updates from this publisher on Google. More rockfall and pyroclastic density current events as well as sulfur dioxide emission were observed over Mayon ...

Make this your preferred source to get more updates from this publisher on Google. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS) said Mayon Volcano had four pyroclastic density ...

MANILA, Philippines — Mayon Volcano in Albay has generated its largest pyroclastic density current or PDC, with a brownish plume that rose one kilometer above the crater and reached as far as four ...

Geologists have determined why — unlike in the neighbouring town of Pompeii — the inhabitants of the ancient Roman town of Herculaneum were not well-preserved by the eruption of the volcano Vesuvius ...