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Volcano
1. Volcano
Definition: a mountain or hill, typically conical,
having a crater or vent through which lava, rock
fragments, hot vapour, and gas are or have been
erupted from the earth’s crust
3. Sakurajima Volcano ( Kagoshima, Japan)
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One of the world's most active volcanoes
Sakurajima can erupt more than a thousand times a
year
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4. Sakurajima Volcano ( Kagoshima, Japan)
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Lava spewed several hundred
feet high during September 27,
2013
Bolts of lightning crackled at
the same time because of
electrostatic charges in the
ejected ash
5. Sakurajima Volcano ( Kagoshima, Japan)
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Belches out a billowing
column of steam and ash,
vertically when there's no wind
about 12,000 feet (3,657
meters) into the air.
If the wind is blowing
westward, the ash settles on
the city of Kagoshima, located
just five miles (eight
kilometers) away across a
narrow stretch of water
6. Sakurajima Volcano ( Kagoshima, Japan)
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Originally, Sakurajima was then an
island
On January 12, 1914, it erupted so
massively that a river of lava
reached Kyushu
The lava hardened into a bridge of
land and turned the volcano into a
peninsula
Dangerous living so close to a
volcano and experts think that a big
eruption could happen soon
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