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| Anything blasted into the air from a volcano |
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| Large rock fragments blasted from a volcano |
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| Column of ash right above volcano |
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| Cracks in the ground through which gases reach the surface |
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| high viscosity, andesitic/rhyolitic |
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| Shallow, flat floored craters that form as a result of violent expansion of magmatic gas or steam |
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| Huge clots of lava burst from the summit crater to create luminous arcs. (Hundreds of feet) |
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| Eruption columns go into the sky (Thousands of feet) |
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| Eruption column goes thousands of feet into the air (Mushroom cloud) |
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| 9.5 mag, 10 minutes of shaking, fault displacement of 1000 kms, tsunami |
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| 7.8 mag, elastic rebound theory, caused massive fire |
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| Tangshan, China Earthquake |
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| 7.5 mag, was predicted, strange animal activity |
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| 9.0 Mag, 517 aftershocks, Earth shifted on axis, Largest plate shift ever recorded, damaged nuclear power plant |
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| Built on reclaimed land, liquifaction |
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| Fires, 8.7Earthquake, Tsunami, triggered religious change |
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| 8.7 and 7.0 Mag, most deaths in Earthquake, Cholera outbreak |
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| Composite, Plinian, caused drop in global climate, 20 million tons of sulphur dioxide |
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| On the Mid atlantic ridge, fissure eruption, lava flows for 6 months, lava flow was diverted |
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| Rhyodacite, Plinian, took place in a Chaldera but created a larger chaldera, Atlantis, Ash cloud as far as China |
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| Earthquake caused landslide on north face, Landslide caused eruption, Plinian, exploded laterally, Andesite, most economically destructive volcano |
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| Plinian, Composite, ruptured eardrums 40 miles away, pyroclastic flow, high pressure sound wave that circumnavigated the globe five times. |
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