Thirty seconds after the Mt Ngāuruhoe explosion the ash cloud rises and expands. Some of the heavier material begins to drop, causing fluid pyroclastic flows (glowing avalanches of fragmented rock) that travelled two kilometres down the Mangatepopo valley.
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Photograph by Graham Hancox
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