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With the world facing the COVID-19 pandemic, overpopulation and global warming with widespread drought and forest fires, one threat we do not have to worry about is volcanic eruptions. Other than the shallow Dotsero Crater, which was produced by a minor magma and water explosion around 4,000 years ago, Colorado has had no volcanic activity for tens of thousands of years.
Most of the world’s volcanic activity is in the Pacific Rim, which includes Indonesia, Japan, Alaska, the Pacific coasts of Canada and the United States, and Hawaii. The U.S. has the third most volcanic activity in the world, after Indonesia and Japan, with most of that being in Alaska.
Ozone levels fell by half as a result of the eruption of the Toba supervolcano in Sumatra, experts from Germany s Max Planck Institute for Chemistry found.
Flowing lava from the volcanic eruption of Mount Nyiragongo, which occurred late on May 22, 2021, is seen in Goma, the Democratic Republic of Congo on May 23, 2021. [Reuters]
Haunted by memories of the 2002 Mount Nyiragongo’s eruption that left 250 people dead and 120,000 homeless, residents of Goma city in Eastern DR Congo fled their homes on May 22 towards the nearby border with Rwanda following another eruption.
Nyiragongo is a large stratovolcano near Lake Kivu at the eastern border of DR Congo with Rwanda in the Virunga National Park.
It has a 1.2 km diameter summit caldera containing the world s most active and largest lava lake.
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Flowing lava from the volcanic eruption of Mount Nyiragongo, which occurred late on May 22, 2021, is seen in Goma, the Democratic Republic of Congo on May 23, 2021. [Reuters]
Haunted by memories of the 2002 Mount Nyiragongo’s eruption that left 250 people dead and 120,000 homeless, residents of Goma city in Eastern DR Congo fled their homes on May 22 towards the nearby border with Rwanda following another eruption.
Nyiragongo is a large stratovolcano near Lake Kivu at the eastern border of DR Congo with Rwanda in the Virunga National Park.
It has a 1.2 km diameter summit caldera containing the world s most active and largest lava lake.
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