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Fire Scar in Lake Okeechobee
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Published June 26, 2007
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Landslide Buries Valley of the Geysers
Published June 20, 2007
Geysers are a rare natural phenomena found only in a few places, such as New Zealand, Iceland, the United States (Yellowstone National Park), and on Russia’s far eastern Kamchatka Peninsula. On June 3, 2007, one of these rare geyser fields was severely damaged when a landslide rolled through Russia’s Valley of the Geysers. The landslide—a mix of mud, melting snow, trees, and boulders—tore a scar on the land and buried a number of geysers, thermal pools, and waterfalls in the valley. It also blocked the Geyser River, causing a new thermal lake to pool upstream.
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Nyiragongo Vents Steam
Published May 8, 2007
When the African volcano Nyiragongo erupted unusually fluid lava in January 2002, nearly 500,000 Congo citizens were displaced, and dozens were killed. The lava did not erupt from the central crater, but instead ran from fissures along the southern slopes, just north of the city of Goma.
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Reykjavik, Iceland
Published May 6, 2007
The world’s northernmost capital city, Reykjavik, Iceland, resides on geologically young land. The island’s location on the mid-Atlantic ridge where the American and Eurasian continental plates are pulling apart means that it experiences frequent volcanic eruptions and earthquakes, but the same geothermal activity meets the inhabitants&rsquoe; energy needs by providing them with hot-water-powered home heating.
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Earthquake Raises Ranongga Island
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Published April 21, 2007
In the early morning hours of April 2, 2007, a magnitude 8.1 earthquake shook the Solomon Islands, its epicenter southwest of Ranongga Island. The huge quake pushed much of the island up, raising the coral reefs that ringed the island above the water.
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