Nakhon Ratchasima, in northeastern Thailand, is a region where nature is very present. Its warm climate and forests allow ...

A huge plume of ash, gas and rock spewed forth on Monday from Italy's Mount Etna as authorities warned people to steer clear ...

A huge plume of ash, gas and rock spewed forth Monday from Italy's Mount Etna, Europe's largest active volcano, after a ...

Located about 8km southeast of Vesuvius, Pompeii was violently pelted by falling pumice and ash for about 12 hours before its final destruction by what are called “pyroclastic surges”: fast ...

It highlights the lethal danger of even diluted pyroclastic surges, which may not cause structural damage but can be fatal due to their intense heat." Dr PierPaolo Petrone, a forensic ...

Pyroclastic flows are extremely hot and fast ... the college died instantly from the impact with the hot volcanic ash surge,” study co-author Pier Paolo Petrone, a forensic anthropologist ...

those in Herculaneum were exposed to a pyroclastic surge—a lethal wave of superheated gas and volcanic material that traveled at high speeds. The man’s remains were first uncovered in the 1960s inside ...

Lying on a wooden bed, he was likely asleep or unaware of the impending catastrophe when the pyroclastic surge—a superheated cloud of gas, ash, and debris—swept through the city. The temperatures ...

Located about 8km southeast of Vesuvius, Pompeii was violently pelted by falling pumice and ash for about 12 hours before its final destruction by what are called “pyroclastic surges”: fast ...

When Mount Vesuvius erupted, its pyroclastic surges destroyed and preserved the Roman towns of Herculaneum and Pompeii. The blast also carbonized more than 1,000 scrolls, leaving them intact but ...

It produced a 'violent' ejection of pumice (a porous rock formed when a gas-rich froth of glassy lava solidifies rapidly) and a pyroclastic surge (a dense collection of hot gas and volcanic ...