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Mount Fuji The Sacred Volcano of Japan
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Mount Fuji hasn’t erupted since 1707. That’s more than three centuries of silence from Japan’s most iconic volcano, which sits there
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The Volcano Route in Ecuador
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The Avenida de los Volcanes stretches 325 kilometers through Ecuador’s spine, a geological fever dream where 85 volcanoes crowd together like teeth
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Ice Volcanoes What Are Cryovolcanoes
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Triton doesn’t care about your Earth-centric definition of what a volcano should be. Neptune’s largest moon shoots nitrogen geysers 8 kilometers
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The Hunt for New Active Volcanoes
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In February 1943, a Mexican farmer named Dionisio Pulido watched his cornfield crack open and start spewing ash. Within a week, Paricutín volcano had grown
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Your Introduction to the World of Volcanoes
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Introductions are supposed to be friendly and welcoming. “Welcome to volcanoes!” But there’s nothing welcoming about mountains that explode
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The Difference Between a Shield and Stratovolcano
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Mauna Loa sprawls across Hawaii like a geological pancake, its slopes so gentle you could probably skateboard down them if you weren’
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The Eruption of Thera and the End of an Age
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Around 1600 BCE, the island of Thera—what we now call Santorini—decided to do something spectacular: it exploded with the force of roughly 40,000 Hiroshima bombs.
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The Mystery of Mud Volcanoes
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In Azerbaijan, there’s a mountain that’s been burning for about 4,000 years. Not metaphorically—actually burning, with flames licking out of
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The Eruption of El Chichón in 1982
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March 28, 1982. A volcano nobody was particularly worried about decided to remind southern Mexico that complacency is a luxury geology doesn’
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What Are Lahars The Volcanic Mudflows
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Picture a mountain vomiting concrete. That’s basically what a lahar is—except the concrete is hot, it smells like sulfur, and it can travel at 60
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