As these pictures from the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii show ... were killed when the town was swallowed by the river of molten rock which stuck in 1986 and again in July 2010.

(See dramatic photos of volcanoes around the world ... This term describes a hot or cold slurry of water and rock fragments that rushes down a volcano’s slopes like “rivers of concrete ...

An explosive eruption last week sent volcanic rock hurtling into the sea around Niijima Island, located 970 km (600 miles) from the Japanese capital Tokyo. The moment of the eruption was captured ...