*This* is what the people of Pompeii, and Herculaneum, and many other hapless souls saw—this is what a pyroclastic density current looks coming RIGHT at you.
Filmed from a CCTV camera during the Mount Semeru eruption on Java, Indonesia on 4 December 2022.
Video credit: PT United Tractors Tbk
December 7, 2025 at 3:24 AM
*This* is what the people of Pompeii, and Herculaneum, and many other hapless souls saw—this is what a pyroclastic density current looks coming RIGHT at you.
Filmed from a CCTV camera during the Mount Semeru eruption on Java, Indonesia on 4 December 2022.