eruption
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Some 550 firefighters are in the battle against the flames near the eruption of another fire in July that covered 37 square kilometres of land.
From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026
And another that she lived through as a child: the 1985 eruption of the Nevado del Ruiz volcano, which wiped out an entire town called Armero and left 25,000 dead.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
The eruption of the Fuego volcano in Guatemala has triggered the evacuation of at least two villages on its slopes.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
The results provide new insight into a long-running scientific question about how magma's temperature history affects crystallization before and during an eruption.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 1, 2026
Far more than they had been able to see since the eruption.
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
Ash from the eruptions has been clouding the skies over eastern Sicily and has disrupted hundreds of flights at Catania International Airport in the past week.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
Disaster management agency Conred issued a nationwide orange alert, the second highest, and warned locals to be prepared as the eruptions could create further pyroclastic flows and billowing ash clouds.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
The concept loosely resembles the way molten rock travels through cracks in Earth's crust before contributing to volcanic eruptions.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026
"We must understand how such large quantities of magma can accumulate to understand how giant caldera eruptions occur," says Kobe University geophysicist Nobukazu Seama.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026
He doesn’t realize there are earthquakes and tsunamis and volcanic eruptions destroying my brain and my heart and my soul.
From "Starfish" by Akemi Dawn Bowman
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