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Credit & Copyright: Allan Sauter
(Scripps)
Explanation:
Nobody suspected that this volcano would erupt.
Mt. Anatahan has not erupted in recorded history.
Nevertheless, on May 10, the small volcano in the
Northern Mariana Islands of the
western Pacific Ocean shot ash 10,000 meters into the air.
Explosions from
Mt.
Anatahan continued every few minutes for two days.
The airborne ash was so bad that some flights were cancelled from downwind
Guam.
Although meter-sized rocks were
catapult through the air,
nobody was hurt, as a
seismology team that coincidentally
installed detectors on the island a few days before had already left.
Fortunately, the team was not too far away to get the
above picture.
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