Global Volcanism Program | Image GVP-01108
Collapse of the growing lava dome on 22 November 1994, produced a pyroclastic flow (block-and-ash flow) that swept 7.5 km down the south flank, overrunning several villages and killing 64 people. Six thousand people were evacuated as a result of this eruption.
Photo by Panut, 1994 (Volcanological Survey of Indonesia).
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Galleries: Lava Domes | Pyroclastic Flows
Keywords: ash plume | pyroclastic density current (PDC) | block-and-ash flow | dome collapse | lava dome | eruption
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