Cold lava, or ‘lahar’ in Javanese, is a mixture of water and rock fragments that flows down a volcano and typically enters a river valley. Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent.

Cold lava, also known as lahar, is a mixture of volcanic debris such as ash, sand and pebbles that flows down a volcano’s slopes during wet weather.

A moving lahar looks like a “roiling slurry of wet concrete,” and a large one can crush, ... Section A, Page 10 of the New York edition with the headline: ‘Cold Lava’ Mudslides Kill Dozens ...

Cold lava, also known as lahar, is a mixture of volcanic debris such as ash, sand and pebbles that flows down a volcano’s slopes during wet weather.

The phrase cold lava is a translation of the term "lahar" in Indonesian and Tagalog. Temperatures range between 0°C and 100°C, according to how they are formed, ...

Cold lava, or Lahar in Indonesia, is a cool mixture of water and rock fragments that flows down the slopes of a volcano and typically enters a river valley.

Heavy rains and torrents of cold lava and mud flowing down a volcano's slopes on Indonesia's Sumatra island triggered flash floods that killed at least 37 ... Cold lava, also known as lahar, ...

Cold lava floods Philippines village after volcano erupts miles away. ... “The lahar on the streets is knee-deep,” Stills Fernandez of the municipal disaster agency was quoted as saying by AFP.

The phrase 'cold lava' translates the term "lahar" in Indonesian and Tagalog. Lahars are mammoth flows of volcanic debris deposited on a volcano's slopes and unleashed by heavy rain or snow melt.

Cold lava – also known as lahar – is a mixture of volcanic material and pebbles which flows down the slope of a volcano in the rain, and travels quickly. Stills Fernandez, ...

PADANG, Indonesia (AP) — Heavy rains and torrents of cold lava and mud flowing down a volcano’s slopes on Indonesia’s Sumatra island have triggered flash floods. Official said Sunday that at ...