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Top 5 Ways Volcanoes Kill

 
Top 5 Ways Volcanoes Kill

Mount St. Helens 26 years ago

In the movies, volcanoes kill people by raining red-hot rocks down on them or by cutting off their escape routes with pools of lava. But real volcanoes don't need to resort to such theatrics. They have more effective ways to do you in, from pyroclastic flows and lahars to tsunamis and gas.


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