In the shadow of Washington State's Mount Rainier, about 90,000 people live in the path of a potential large lahar—a ...

"And so the biggest concern for this volcano are mud flows, or lahars, which can occur with just a minor eruption. A small ...

A powerful volcanic eruption lofted ash high into the atmosphere and spread tephra and other volcanic debris across the small ...

These big eruptions spread tephra east into Montana, Alberta and Saskatchewan, but lahars have also reached Puget Sound as recently as 1,800 years ago. • Three Fingers is one of the more ...

Thousands of lives are potentially at risk if Mount Rainier were to erupt and on Thursday, students in Pierce County ...

Damage from lahars, or volcanic mudflows, at Pinatubo. The scientific team did an incredible job of interpreting the data coming in and of understanding what was about to happen. They completed a ...

Ash falling into rivers creates more mudflows, known as lahars, that fill river valleys long after the eruption is over. "There are more victims from the mudflows than from the eruption itself ...

If this hot debris is deposited on snow and ice, it causes melting and generates lahars (volcanic mudflows) that may deposit debris miles away from the volcanic vents. The largest eruption in the ...

Lahars or debris flows: This term describes a hot or cold slurry of water and rock fragments that rushes down a volcano’s slopes like “rivers of concrete,” according to the USGS. These often ...

La menace de nouveaux lahars fait désormais partie du quotidien des riverains de la commune du Prêcheur. Ce lundi (12 février) des coulées de boue ont été observées et une évacuation ...

There’s ashfall, fast moving currents of hot gas and volcanic matter known as pyroclastic flows and destructive mudflows called lahars. These can have a disastrous impact on a local scale through ...

Pyle, David M. Mather, Tamsin A. and Biggs, Juliet 2013. Remote sensing of volcanoes and volcanic processes: integrating observation and modelling – introduction ...