Local authorities have heightened their alert as moderate to heavy rains coupled with ash deposited along the slopes of the ...

Lahars are very destructive volcanic mudflows that can swallow everything in their paths. During the Mount St. Helens eruptions, lahars flowed up to 60 miles destroying 200 homes. Lahars are one ...

Eight volcanic earthquakes were detected at Kanlaon Volcano in Visayas on Saturday, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology ...

Semeru has been showing heightened volcanic activity since November of last year. The 3,676-meter-high volcano erupted 475 ...

In any case, the result is the same: a volcanic mudslide known as a lahar. Lahars are also devastating – they can be hot or cold, and in steep areas can reach over 200 kilometers per hour.

Instead, many scientists fear the prospect of a lahar — a swiftly moving slurry of water and volcanic rock originating from ice or snow rapidly melted by an eruption that picks up debris as it ...

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 ...

A minor explosion occurred at the crater of the Kanlaon Volcano on Thursday afternoon, according to the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs). In ...

Mount Semeru is an active volcano in East Java, which is located on the island of Java in the south of Indonesia. According ...

Kanlaon Volcano in Negros Island emitted a 900-meter high ash plume from its crater while recording 35 volcano earthquakes in the past 24 hours, according to the Philippine Institute of Volcanology ...

Five ash emission events of up to 125 minutes long were monitored at Kanlaon Volcano, according to the Philippine Institute ...