Fire In The Sky Alexander Cassimaty, Volcano Expert

Mount Lamington is a 1,680 meter-high volcano located in Papua New Guinea.
Three days of tremor preceded the eruption at Mount Lamington volcano. Landslides, ash emission, glowing volcanic bombs and lightning were seen by the people leaving around the volcano.
The paroxysm at Mount Lamington occurred at 10:40 on 21st Jan 1951.
A roar was heard 320km away and a catastrophic avalanche ripped apart the side of the mountain.
Pyroclastic flow killed everything in a 325km square radius of Mount Lamington, the pyroclastic flows continued for weeks afterwards hampering rescue efforts.
The pyroclastic flow was not uniform reaching areas 6kms to 12kms out.
Over the next months, further eruptions and tremors, as well as a continued a ten mile radius.
Extreme damage was seen for nearly 6 miles and deaths were reported nearly 9 miles away from the volcano. Loss of life was 3,000-4,000 and destroyed dozens of villages.
Survives said” the smoke was seven miles high and the explosion was like an atom bomb.”

Mount Lamington erupted because, the Indo-Australian plate pushed towards each other making the plate go under, this is called ‘Subducting Plates’.Because of the heat underground, the rock melts and becomes magma.
Mount Lamington was sitting on a ‘hotspot’ in the mantle; a ‘hotspot’ is a point where a plume of super-heated magma rises.

Lava goes through the middle causing a conduit, a conduit is a pipe in the volcano.
When a volcano erupts it creates a cone or crater, the volcano created a deadly ash or magma showers that is very deadly, this can stop airports.
The magma can force through a branch pipe and comes out from the side.
Seismometers can be used to pinpoint earthquakes which track the rise of magma in mountains; measurements of the tilt of the