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Spectacular video of the Sinabung volcano spitting lava

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Photovolcanica has captured a tremendous pyroclastic flow that happened last week at Mount Sinabung, Sumatra: “A close-up of the lava lobe is shown including the collapse of the lobe front leading to a pyroclastic flow. Movement of the lobe prior to collapse is just about visible.” That thing was really huge—it looks like the lava ran for more than a mile before stopping.

https://gizmodo.com/this-insanely-gigantic-volcano-explosion-just-happened-1465189438

Read more about the Indonesian volcanos’s activity over at Photovolcanica.


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