Credit: Image by Marc Bernstein/Montserrat Volcano Observatory/Via PBS NewsHour
File Information:
- File Type: image/gif
- Width: 600px
- Height: 338px
- File Size: 4.1MB
From the article: What Made Guatemala’s Fuego Volcano Eruption So Deadly?
A thermal video of a pyroclastic flow taken at the Soufrière Hills volcano in Montserrat in November 2009. The bottom layer features a chaotic mass of lava rocks, said Janine Krippner, a volcanologist at Concord University, while hot gas and sandlike ash rises above.