This is the spectacular moment the Santiaguito volcano eruption was seen from the air in Guatemala. Dramatic footage, including drone and thermal imagery, shows glowing, red-hot rocks and thick plumes ...

life-threatening Plinian eruptions with little or no warning. Though volcanologists study all types of volcanoes, the latter kind is of greatest concern since it is capable of killing thousands of ...

When a plinian column falls upon itself, it creates a pyroclastic surge—a boiling, turbulent avalanche of debris that shoots out sideways from the slopes of a volcano. This searing cloud can ...

In 2002 the volcano shot more than 15 million cubic yards ... The recent eruptions hadn't been classic, spouting-out-the-top types, so-called Plinian eruptions, but rather fissure eruptions ...

Focus: Modelling the eruptive behaviour of Popocatépetl volcano to understand relationships between the timescales of pre-eruptive magmatic processes and the dynamics of Popocatépetl’s plumbing system ...