Officials assure public: no immediate threat from volcano's eruptive cloud and pyroclastic flow Smoke billows from Mount Etna volcano, Italy, Monday, June 2, 2025.

🌋 REPLAY: Mount Etna Pyroclastic Flows! Watch the Volcanic Activity Unfold (June 2, 2025) Watch on Activity has calmed in the last few hours but the threatening grey cloud is still visible.

“Pyroclastic flows can come out of the volcano at up to 150 kilometres an hour. If it’s coming out, you can’t outrun them.

This time around, a pyroclastic flow of hot rock, ash, and gas was seen falling around 11.30am, while a fountain of lava was emitted from its southeast crater. Is it safe to travel to Sicily?

Unlike pyroclastic flows, which hug the ground, an ash cloud is airborne. However, the two are linked, Giordano said. “What is an ash cloud? It’s a dilute part of the pyroclastic flow.

JAKARTA: Mount Merapi, an active volcano in Central Java and Yogyakarta, has recently emitted lava and pyroclastic flows that reached distances of up to 1.5km from its summit.

The researchers said this could not have happened if the individual was heated solely by the pyroclastic flows – avalanches containing lava pieces, ash and hot gases – which buried Pompeii and ...

The mentioned ash clouds are known to have formed during multiple recent volanic eruptions that features pyroclastic flows, including the 1991 eruption of Japan's Mount Unzen, the expert explained.

The lava flows would spread over about 40 miles (64km). Everything within a 50-mile (80km) radius would be destroyed by a pyroclastic flow. America smothered with volcanic ash ...

Pyroclastic density current (PDC): A turbulent, high-density flow composed of volcanic ash, lapilli and gases that descends rapidly along a volcano’s slope following an eruption.

Mount Lewotobi Laki‑laki erupted twice in one day, sending ash up to 18 km into the air. The volcano remains at the highest ...