A man presses his hands together in prayer before a memorial cenotaph in the location that served as the media's "fixed point" when a pyroclastic flow hit the area, in Shimabara, Nagasaki Prefecture, ...

One of the leading killers during explosive volcanic eruptions is a family of superheated gas, ash, and debris known as pyroclastic density currents. These tumbling, turbulent paroxysms rush downslope ...

Smoke is seen rising from the crater of Mount Shindake on Kuchinoerabu Island in Yakushima, Kagoshima Prefecture on Feb. 3, 2020. (Image from a Japan Meteorological Agency monitoring camera) ...

Mount Sinabung in Indonesia has been exploding with ash and debris since early June, now in its fifth year of activity since the long-dormant volcano came back online after hundreds of years of ...