The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #74024   Message #1289165
Posted By: HuwG
05-Oct-04 - 09:57 AM
Thread Name: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers
Subject: RE: BS: Mount St. Helens - Volcano Watchers
open mike, the French volcanologist couple you may be thinking of were Maurice and Katya Krafft. They were killed by a pyroclastic flow on Mt. Unzen in Japan in 1991. (As they had done before, they had positioned themselves on the flank of the predicted path of the flow, but they were taken unawares by an unexpected collapse of the lava dome and a change in the wind direction.)