Scientists are urging people who live in southcentral Alaska to begin preparing for a possible eruption of the Mount Spurr ...

Paleontologists have unveiled a 30,000-year-old vulture fossil in Italy, preserved in volcanic ash, showcasing microscopic ...

But a 2001 study in Nature, co-authored by Italian archaeologist Pier Paolo Petrone, estimated a temperature of 500° Celsius (932° Fahrenheit) for the pyroclastic surge that destroyed Pompeii ...

Attendees offered a prayer to 43 victims who died in 1991, and to another person who died in the pyroclastic flows that occurred on June 23, 1993. A pyroclastic flow is a deadly, fast-moving mix ...

The Doom of the Alban Hills’ a digital painting representing a possible scenario of the moments before the vulture carcass was entombed in the pyroclastic current.

That is hotter than the pyroclastic flow that buried the city, which topped out at around 465C. Then the brain needed to rapidly cool down -- and all this had to happen before the flow arrived.

The devastation really ramped up by 7:06pm, when the volcano launched the first 'pyroclastic currents' – the deadly hot and fast-moving flows of gas and volcanic particles. These scalding-hot ...

Semeru Volcano in East Java erupted seven times on Monday morning, throwing ash up to 1,000 meters, according to a ...

A UCC-based scientist has led an international team to have made a breakthrough discovery in the preservation of fossils.

The eruption of the 3,676-metre-high volcano happened between 2.38am and 9.27am (local time), with southwesterly winds.