Pyroclastic density currents (PDCs) are a destructive volcanic hazard. Quantifying the types, frequency and magnitudes of PDC events is essential for effective risk management, but since historical ...

Pyroclastic density current (PDC) deposits, especially small to medium volume events, have low preservation potential at many volcanoes, particularly when unconsolidated or deposited on steep, ...

The Campi Flegrei volcanic field (Italy) poses very high risk to the highly urbanized Neapolitan area. Eruptive history was dominated by explosive activity producing pyroclastic currents (hereon PCs; ...

An ongoing pyroclastic density current (PDC) event, locally known as uson, was recorded at Mayon Volcano on Sunday afternoon, ...

Make this your preferred source to get more updates from this publisher on Google. More rockfall and pyroclastic density current events as well as sulfur dioxide emission were observed over Mayon ...

MANILA, Philippines — The state seismologists bureau reported “frequent incandescent rockfall and numerous pyroclastic density current (PDC) events” in the Mayon volcano’s Miisi and Bonga Gullies.

AS the Department of Science and Technology-Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (DOST-Phivolcs) assesses a possible extension of the permanent danger zone around Mayon Volcano, where ...

Geologists have determined why — unlike in the neighbouring town of Pompeii — the inhabitants of the ancient Roman town of Herculaneum were not well-preserved by the eruption of the volcano Vesuvius ...