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In Southern Japan, in a town next to a volcano, children attending the school there have to wear hard hats to protect from the debris that is constantly erupting out of the volcano.

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Sometimes volcanoes can produce lightening in their ash clouds.

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When a volcano erupts ash can be thrown higher than 2 miles in to the air.

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Tectonic plates move as fast as are finger nails grow!

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Mount Vesuvius erupted and

killed lots of people.

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Most volcanoes erupt along plate

boundaries!

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A Volcano is an opening on the Earth's

surface where molten rock emerges

from underground.

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When Mount Pinatubo erupted a lahar in 1991 1000 people died and 1,000,000 people were homeless

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The famous Mt St Helens last

erupted in 1988 and 57 people

died.

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When Krakatoa erupted

people heard it over 5000 miles

away !

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A volcano is formed by two tectonic

plates pushing together which forms

a mountain which is called a volcano.

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Magma is the same as larva.

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Eyjafjallajokull is a volcano in Iceland and you're very lucky if you can pronounce it's name!

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Some eruptions go on

for years or days.

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Molten rock is always hotter than 800 degrees when it has come out of a volcano

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Did you know that volcanoes have caused lots of terrible deaths.

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The most famous volcanoe is mount Vesuivious.

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A volcano is created by tectonic plates moving

towards and away from each other.

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A volcano is formed when two plates,

under the earths crust, are pushed together.

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When mount Vesuvius

erupted in Pompeii at least

16,000 people died!

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When volcano's are dormant, they can still errupt at any time and could

destroy lots of houses and kill lots of people.

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When Mt. Vesuvius erupted in Pompeii, some people managed to escape, but when they thought the worst was over, they went back to collect valuables... not knowing that the worst was yet to come!

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A volcano's larva comes from the core of the world.

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In the Mt St Helens eruption in 1988 57 people died.

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Before a volcano erupts, it's sides will swell,

there will be tremors in the ground and

massive RUMBLES will be heard.

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Lava turns into rock ,when it cools down.

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Volcanoes canremain silent for many years

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Magma is lava that hasnt erupted yet.

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Did you know that Tectonic plates

move as slow as your finger nails

grow.

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Did you know that

Mt. Vesuvius produced 6 pyroclastic flows! Also in one erupton from Mt. Vesuvius destroyed around 5 american army planes!

The eruption from Krakatoa destroyed 2/3 of itself and was heard over 5000 miles away!

Volcanoes made early earth's atmosphere!

Tectonic plates move as fast as your fingernails grow. Thats only a few centimeteres a year!

Mt' Vesuvius' boiled peoples brains in Herculania and then their brains exploded leaving holes in their skulls!

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It is thought that Mt. Vesuvius had the same sort of eruption as St. Helens!

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The volcano , Krakatoa was heard 5,000

miles away , killed 36,451 people and destroyed

2/3rd` s of the island.

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When a volcano erupts ash can

be thrown more than 2 miles

into the air!

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You will mosly find Volcanoes

in the ring of fire.

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There are still 80 volcanos under the ocean.

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A shield volcano's lava travels

100 metres before stopping

and cooling down and becoming a solid .

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There are also volcanoes in space.

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The largest volcano in the

Solar System is on Mars

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A sheled volcano lava dose not shoot up into

the air like a normal volcano.

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As you are reading this fact, 20 small volcanoes are erupting around the world!

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Iceland has about 130 volcanoes.

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In the eruption of Mount Pinatubo, up to 800

people were killed and 100,000 became homeless!

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Grimsvotn is Icelands most frequent

active volcano probably because it is

located on the centre of the active

NE rift zone of Iceland

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The mantle layer in a volcanoe is about 4500 degrees.

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Krakatoa was the loudest ever

eruption heard

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A shield volcanoes lava can travel up to 100 km before hardening.

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Mount Sinaburg started with calm rock falls but then gradually built up to the eruption.

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If there is rain or snow on the

ground  lava can cause mud flows.

Mud flows can cause lots of serious damage

and destroy large areas of land.

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The most deadly thing about a

volcano is the pyroclastic flow, a

cloud of boiling hot gasses and rock

that can burn you!

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Eyjafjoll (Iceland) is actually a

glacier with a volcano underneath!

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Mount St Helens erupted for nine hours.

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There are more volcanoes on Venus than on earth.

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Volcanoes can grow as high as 3000 metres.

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Mount Etna is 3 times as big as Mount Vesuvius

and last erupted in 2013.

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Mount Pelee is a stratovolcano

and its 4000,000 years old!

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Mount Stromboli erupts every 20 minutes and it is very dangerous,even more deadlierthan Mount Etna.

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Erta Ale is 40 kilometres in diameter and 450 metres high.

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Eyjafjoll (iceland) stands 1,621m tall and erupted in 2010.

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Krakatoa spread fine ash from the ring

of fire all the way to New York

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Indonesia is the most volcanic place on Earth!

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Mount Etna is a very active stratovolcano on the east coast of sicily.It is the  tallest active volcano on the European continent, currently 3,329m hight.

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A stratovolcano is built up by many layers of hardend lava and ash.

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La Palma is one of the Canary islands (in the Atlantic Ocean.)

It erupted on October-26 till November-28 1971.

Over the past 500 years it has erupted 7 times

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Mount Etna eurpts every 15-20 minuts.

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Novarupta erupted with the biggest

eruption in the 20th century!

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Mount Sinabiburg in Iceland

is erupting right now.

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Some of the rock on Strombolia is

2000 years old !