Get out of there and stay out of there. The mudslides will remain unstable after they stop.

Any suspended dust will also become mud.

Photographs taken by hikers (click here) in the moments before Mount Ontake volcano erupted in Japan last month have been made public by the victims’ families. More than 50 people died in the unexpected eruption on Sept. 27 in the country's deadliest volcanic eruption since World War II....