Most eruptions of Piton de la Fournaise are of the Hawaiian style when fluid basaltic lava flows out with fire fountaining at the vent. This volcano is over 530,000 years old, and for most of its ...

Piton de la Fournaise situated on the Indian Ocean island of Reunion started erupting overnight, according to the Piton de la Fournaise volcano observatory (OVPF). The eruption began at 11.50pm ...