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Generally pyroclastic flows happen during an eruption.

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Does a pyroclastic flow typically occur during a quiet or loud eruption?

Pyroclastic flow typically occurs during a violent eruption.


What kind of eruption has an pyroclastic flow?

An explosive volcanic eruption. Pyroclastic flow is a mixture of fast flowing hot gases that travel down and away from the eruption.


What type of eruption does mount saint helens have?

a pyroclastic flow


What kind of type of lava does a Pelean eruption have?

A pyroclastic eruption, involving a viscous magma, typically of rhyolitic or andesitic type. An ignimbrite is the deposit of a pyroclastic density current, or pyroclastic flow.


Does a pyroclastic flow typically occurs during an quite eruption?

No. A "quiet" eruption will produce lava flows. Pyroclastic flows generally result from explosive eruptions.


Is it true that pyroclastic flow typically occurs during a quiet eruption?

No. Pyroclastic flows are characteristic of explosive eruptions.


What is the name of the flow of gas from a very explosive volcano?

The name of the explosive outflow of gas from a volcaic eruption is a Pyroclastic Flow, however it can also be called a Pyroclastic Surge.


What are differences between an eruption column and pyroclastic flow?

An eruption column is a vertical column of ash and volcanic gases rising above a volcano during an explosive eruption, while a pyroclastic flow is a fast-moving avalanche of hot rock fragments and volcanic gases that flows down the sides of a volcano at high speed. Eruption columns are visible in the sky, while pyroclastic flows move rapidly along the ground, causing devastation in their path.


Where has a pyroclastic flow killed people before?

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.


What happens when a explosive eruption hurls ash cinders bombs and gases out of a volcano?

A pyroclastic flow.


Does the eruption in the video constitute a pyroclastic flow?

Since we do no know which video you are referring to, we cannot answer the question.


Can non explosive volcanoes have pyroclastic flows?

The answer is Explosive . It is explosive because during a explosive eruption there are clouds of ash, gas , and rock , and with a pyroclastic flow there is dust and ash . there for the answer must be explosive .