There have been a number of cases. Pyroclastic flows killed people in Herculaneum in the 79 AD eruption of Mount Vesuvius, in Ketimbang and on the Island of Sebesi in the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa, in St Pierre in the 1902 eruption of Mount Pelee, in the state of Washington in the 1980 eruption of Mount St Helens, and in Japan during the 1991 eruption of Mount Unzen.
No person killed the people of Pompeii; they were killed by an act of nature. They died because of the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius and its pyroclastic flow.
Maurice and Katia Krafft.
Pyroclastic flow.
Pyroclastic flow
an explosive volcano will usually have a pyroclastic flow
No. A pyroclastic flow can move at well over 100 mph.
Very quickly. A pyroclastic flow can approach half the speed of sound. People exposed to the temperatures inside a pyroclastic flow can die almost instantly.
The pyroclastic flow from the volcano devastated the surrounding area, burying everything in its path under a blanket of ash and hot gases.
The deadliest phenomenon associated with volcanoes is a pyroclastic flow. Pyroclastic flows are hot masses of ash, rock, and gas that race down the slopes of a volcano, sometimes reaching speeds of well over 100 mph and burning everything in their path.
A pyroclastic flow moves away from a volcano in all directions.
A pyroclastic flow typically happens during or after an eruption. It occurs when a volcano releases a fast-moving mixture of hot gas and volcanic materials, such as ash and rock fragments, that flow down the slopes of the volcano at high speeds. Pyroclastic flows are extremely dangerous and can cause significant destruction in their path.
the volcano that has pyroclastic flow in addition to liquid lava is the composite or stratovolcano.