A University of Washington professor says the heartbreaking images of death and devastation coming from the Guatemalan volcano and lahar should serve as an urgent warning to be familiar with a local ...

In the shadow of Washington State’s Mount Rainier, about 90,000 people live in the path of a potential large lahar—a destructive, fluid and fast-moving debris flow associated with volcanic slopes. At ...

Volcanoes are now more closely monitored. We have a good chance now of determining when a volcano becomes restless,” says Don Swanson, a volcanologist reflecting on the lessons learned from the 1980 ...

LEGAZPI CITY – Roads affected by the lahar flow triggered by heavy rains in Guinobatan, Albay, are now passable following clearing operations on Wednesday. The Department of Public Works and Highways ...

Something stirred beneath Mount Rainier this summer, sending over 1,000 earthquakes through the ground in weeks—the largest ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Geological Agency, part of the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources (ESDM), reported that a lahar flow from Mount Lewotobi Laki-laki impacted Klatanlo and Dulipali villages ...

LEGAZPI CITY—Heavy rain triggered another lahar flow in villages near the Mayon Volcano in Guinobatan town in Albay on Thursday afternoon. Joy Maravillas, head of the municipal disaster risk reduction ...

TACOMA — Pierce County is moving to a new centralized lahar warning system — one that could replace the jolting wail of sirens with the gentler sound of chiming bells during twice-yearly tests. A ...

NEGROS OCCIDENTAL (PIA) –- Lahar flow hit at least two barangays in the Kanlaon-affected La Castellana town, as the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) ...

During the course of an eruption, a volcano can produce a variety of hazards, such as lava flows, pyroclastic flows and lahars, volcanic mud flows. Latent hazards may exist for years after an eruption ...

Lahar is an Indonesian word for a rapidly flowing mixture of rock debris and water that originates on the slopes of a volcano. Lahars are also referred to as volcanic mudflows or debris flows. They ...

Jan 29 (Reuters) - A volcanic mudslide from New Zealand's 2,800 metre Mount Ruapehu is likely to be triggered in the coming weeks as melting snow fills the summit's swollen crater lake, local media ...