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Jarvis Island seamount
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100 Million-Year-Old Extinct Volcano Discovered Beneath Pacific Ocean An ancient extinct volcano has been discovered four km underwater in one of the least explored areas of the Pacific Ocean. The one-km-high seamount was found about 300km from Jarvis Island, an uninhabited island located hal...
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Tavurvur volcano
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A volcano in Papua New Guinea has erupted, sending lava into the air and causing panic among locals. Tavurvur, on the tip of New Britain island in the countrys east, has previously erupted in 1937, 1994, 2006 and again last year. Read more
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Ben Nevis
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The first recorded ascent of Ben Nevis was made on 17 August 1771 by James Robertson Read more
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Herðubreið
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Herðubreið is a tuya in north-east Iceland. It is situated in the Highlands of Iceland in the midst of the Ódáðahraun desert and close to Askja volcano. Read more
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Floodwater triggered by melted glacial ice is pouring from an Icelandic volcano, and scientists say it may be a precursor to an eruption. Read more The Grímsvötn lakes are lakes in Icel...
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Parícutin volcano
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Parícutin (or Volcán de Parícutin, also accented Paricutín) is a cinder cone volcano in the Mexican state of Michoacán, close to a lava-covered village of the same name. The volcano began as a fissure in a cornfield owned by a P'urhépecha farmer, Dionisio Pulido, on February 20, 1943. Read more
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Mount Hood
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Mount Hood is a huge draw for skiers, climbers and hikers. Volcano researchers, not so much. As volcanoes go, the mountain is monotonous. In Mount Hood's half-million-year history, it hasn't had the explosive, top-blowing eruptions of Mount St. Helens and others among its Northwest sisters. The...
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Jehol Biota
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'Animal Pompeii' wiped out China's ancient creatures The puzzle of how a 120-million-year-old animal graveyard in China formed may have been solved. Scientists believe that the creatures from the lower Cretaceous era were instantly killed by volcanic eruptions similar to the violent blast tha...
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Kuwae
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Kuwae is a submarine caldera between Epi and Tongoa islands. Kuwae Caldera cuts through the flank of the Tavani Ruru volcano on Epi and the northwest end of Tongoa. The submarine volcano Karua, one of the most active volcanoes of Vanuatu, is near the northern rim of Kuwae Caldera. Read more
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Shyhzerli volcano
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Eruption of Shyhzerli volcano causes earthquake in Azerbaijan Eruption of the Shyhzerli volcano - one of the most active and largest mud volcanoes in Azerbaijan, occurred due to an earthquake, head of the Mud Volcanoes Department of Geology Institute of Azerbaijani National Academy of Sciences...
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Supervolcanoes
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Supervolcanoes 'can grow in just hundreds of years' The largest volcanoes on our planet may take as little as a few hundred years to form and erupt. These "supervolcanoes" were thought to exist for as much as 200,000 years before releasing their vast underground pools of molten rock. Re...
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Chaparrastique volcano
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El Salvador's Chaparrastique volcano erupts for first time in 37 years El Salvador's Chaparrastique volcano erupted Sunday, sending a dark cloud of ash miles into the sky, forcing thousands to evacuate from their homes and snarling travel in the Central American country as airlines cancelled fl...
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Erebus
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Antarctica's famous volcano shows signs of life not seen in nearly 30 years There were hints as early as August. In October, however, the signs that Erebus volcano was waking up in a big way became unmistakable. By Oct. 9, a broadband seismic station External Non-U.S. government site on the flanks of...
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Galápagos Volcanoes
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Satellite Data Yield New Understanding Of How Galápagos Volcanoes Are Formed And May Erupt In The Future The chance transit of a satellite over the April 2009 eruption of Fernandina volcano - the most active in South America's famed Galápagos archipelago - has revealed for the first time the mechan...
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Mount Rinjani
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Perak Journalists To Climb Rinjani Volcano, Lombok Next Month A group of journalists from Perak will embark on an expedition to climb the Rinjani Volcano on the island of Lombok, Indonesia from Nov 4-11 Read more
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