Definition of lahar
: a moving fluid mass composed of volcanic debris and water
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Video showed lahar slamming into and partly destroying a highway bridge.
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Hernandez peers into the narrow open space and points to the back wall of the house, where the lahar hit the structure.
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Huge lahars are the greatest risk posed by an eruption at Mount Rainier, according to the USGS.
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The worst of the volcano's impact, lahars and pyroclastic flows, are chain reactions following the fiery eruption.
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Orting is the town most vulnerable to lahar damage from Mount Rainier, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
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Orting is the town most vulnerable to lahar damage from Mount Rainier, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
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The heat from Mount Rainier’s lava flows could potentially melt the snow and ice on the volcano, causing a rapid downstream flow of mud, rocks and debris called lahar.
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Ash from the volcano fell on Guatemala City and in the town of Antigua, a colonial-era city popular with tourists, as burning-hot lahar — a slurry of lava, rocky debris and water — gushed down onto the communities that dot the side of the volcano.
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Origin and Etymology of lahar
Javanese
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