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About 75% of Earth’s active volcanoes ring the Pacific Ocean

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Tambora’s 1815 eruption helped create a year without a summer

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Lahars can bury valleys in volcanic mudflows within minutes

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Volcanic lightning crackles inside ash plumes during explosive eruptions

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Iceland straddles a mid-ocean ridge that powers island-wide hot springs

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Persistent lava lakes can stay molten for years as open magma windows

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Subduction recycles seafloor into magma that feeds arc volcanoes

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Crater lakes can fill calderas spanning kilometers across

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Fumaroles vent volcanic steam and sulfur for decades between eruptions

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Pillow lava stacks like underwater cushions when molten rock hits the sea

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Pumice can float because eruptions foam rock with trapped gas

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Lava tubes can ferry molten rock for kilometers under a hardened roof

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Mauna Loa is Earth’s largest active volcano by volume

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Stromboli has been erupting almost nonstop for millennia

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Mount Fuji’s last eruption blanketed Edo in ash in 1707

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Mount Etna is Europe’s most persistently active volcano

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Yellowstone sits above a vast magma reservoir under Wyoming

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Mauna Kea rises over 10 kilometers from seafloor to summit

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Chimborazo’s summit sits farther from Earth’s center than Everest

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