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What Are Seismic Waves?
Seismic waves are vibrations that carry energy away from an earthquake, explosion or other sudden source. Their speed and path depend on the elastic properties and density of the material they travel through.
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Earthquakes & Volcanoes
Understand the forces that reshape Earth through plate tectonics, earthquakes, faults, magma and volcanic eruptions.
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How Do Volcanoes Erupt?
Volcanoes erupt when magma and gases move from depth toward Earth's surface and pressure overcomes the strength of surrounding rock. The style of eru…
What Is Plate Tectonics?
Plate tectonics is the framework that explains the large-scale motion of Earth's rigid outer shell. The lithosphere is broken into plates that move o…
How Do Earthquakes Happen?
Earthquakes happen when stress accumulated in rocks is released suddenly as a fault slips. Tectonic plates move continuously, but friction can lock p…
48 people died in a new eruption of the Indonesian volcano
48 people were killed in the violent eruption of the volcano Merapi on Indonesia's Java island this early morning ...
Icelandic volcano eruption, European aviation alert
The Bardarbunga volcano in Iceland erupts violently with lava flows fired into the air about 70m high.
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The 'world's most useless' volcano: Turned into a cooking stove for locals.
Monte Busca is considered to have completely lost its 'volcanic pride'.
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Where is the largest volcano in the Solar System?
Mount Olympus on Mars is the largest mountain in the Solar System and is believed to be the tallest of the eight planets.
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Mud Volcano in Indonesia - A Devastating Natural Disaster from Both Natural Force and Human Greed
Mud volcanoes form when a combination of mud, liquids, and gases erupts onto the Earth's surface.
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UAE spacecraft takes photos of the solar system's largest volcano
The UAE's Hope probe sent back its first image of Mars days after successfully entering orbit around the planet.
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Japan develops breakthrough medicine from... volcano crater
A new drug that promises to save millions of lives is being developed based on a discovery made half a century ago in a crater in Cameroon.
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In less than a year, a volcano in Iceland erupted 7 times.
The Icelandic Meteorological Organization (IMO) said that early on the morning of November 21, Vietnam time, a volcano erupted on the Reykjanes peninsula, about 30km sou…
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The volcano suddenly erupted, causing people to scream in panic.
Locals were left screaming in panic after seeing the volcano in San José de Mulatos, Colombia suddenly erupt.
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'Super volcano' explodes in the sky, tearing space apart
The Hubble Telescope captured an image that NASA describes as
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Connect Nicaragua volcano with the Internet to forecast eruption risks
Not to surf Facebook, to watch videos on YouTube, but covering the entire volcano in Nicaragua with the internet will help scientists gain data to predict when it is abo…
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Not magma, this is the most dangerous thing from volcanoes
The impact of the ashes from the volcano is huge. When volcanic eruptions, ash columns can reach several kilometers high, affecting a large radius.
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Washington's highest volcano and the risk of flattening the US city
An earthquake that rocked Mount St Helens in Washington may have woken a more dangerous volcano, capable of flattening the entire US city, seismologists warned.
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The world's largest volcano revived
Mauna Loa, the largest active volcano in the world, may be preparing to erupt again as seismic and distortion monitoring data show that small earthquakes are frequent.
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Indonesian volcano sprayed 8,000 meters of smoke ash
Two Indonesian volcanoes had an eruption on November 18, causing many flights to be canceled or changed, and thousands of evacuated people could not return home.
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Decipher the mysterious eruption of the super volcano
The researchers found that super volcanoes can erupt at any time, without the impact of earthquakes or external stimuli.
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Mayon volcano woke up, 12,000 Filipinos evacuated urgently
Scientists say that the Mayon volcano peak has been rocked and landslided in the past 24 hours after a number of heat eruptions.
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Ol Doinyo Lengai - The most unique volcano in the world
Without the lava-red eruptions, the volcano Ol Doinyo Lengai in Africa spilled an impressive stream of black lava.
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Volcano in the Russian Far East sprayed ash column 6km high
The highest volcano in the Eurasian continent is Klyuchevskoi, located on the Kamchatka peninsula in the Russian Far East, on the morning of October 10, spraying ash col…
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Sakurajima volcano in southern Japan erupted
The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) said the Sakurajima volcano in southern Japan erupted on the afternoon of August 18, tossing up as much as 5,000 meters of ash.
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Russian Far Eastern volcano sprayed ashes 6.5km high
A volcano on the Kamchatka peninsula in the Russian Far East on August 6 began to operate fiercely, spraying ashes into the sky to a height of 6.5km, RIA Novosti quoted…
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Guatemala alarmed when Pacaya's volcano
On May 30, the Government of Guatemala officially announced the orange alarm (the closest to the red alert) due to fears that Pacaya volcano in the country might erupt a…