Five of the World's Hottest Volcanoes

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/b88e1b6b-1d16-4a2d-a13d-6737f7a5aedc/1CAE84F5-E961-4D5C-A6BA-09E1E5A3D95B/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.scienceray.com/Earth-Sciences/Geology/Five-of-the-Worlds-Hottest-Volcanoes.120282" href="http://www.scienceray.com/Earth-Sciences/Geology/Five-of-the-Worlds-Hottest-Volcanoes.120282" style="font-size: 11px;">www.scienceray.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.scienceray.com/Earth-Sciences/Geology/Five-of-the-Worlds-Hottest-Volcanoes.120282"><P>The Pacific Ring of Fire is home to 452 (over 75%) of the world's volcanoes.  Volcanoes are marked in red on the map.</P><P><IMG alt="" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/readers/scienceray/2008/05/06/157452_0.jpg" /></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.scienceray.com/Earth-Sciences/Geology/Five-of-the-Worlds-Hottest-Volcanoes.120282"><H3>A Newb Shouts Out:  Mount Chaitén, Chile</H3><P><IMG alt="" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/readers/scienceray/2008/05/06/157452_1.jpg" /></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.scienceray.com/Earth-Sciences/Geology/Five-of-the-Worlds-Hottest-Volcanoes.120282"><P>Located 800 miles south of Santiago, Chile, at an elevation of 3280 feet.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.scienceray.com/Earth-Sciences/Geology/Five-of-the-Worlds-Hottest-Volcanoes.120282">Thousands of people were evacuated making the small city look like a ghost town.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.scienceray.com/Earth-Sciences/Geology/Five-of-the-Worlds-Hottest-Volcanoes.120282"><H3>Kilauea Volcano</H3><P><IMG alt="" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/readers/scienceray/2008/05/06/157452_2.jpg" /></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.scienceray.com/Earth-Sciences/Geology/Five-of-the-Worlds-Hottest-Volcanoes.120282">the Big Island of Hawaii, Kilauea is currently the world's most active volcano</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.scienceray.com/Earth-Sciences/Geology/Five-of-the-Worlds-Hottest-Volcanoes.120282">April 2008, lava from Kiliuea flowed through the lava tube system underneath Kilauea's Thanksgiving Eve Breakout </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.scienceray.com/Earth-Sciences/Geology/Five-of-the-Worlds-Hottest-Volcanoes.120282"><H3>Volcán de Fuego, Guatemala</H3><P><IMG alt="" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/readers/scienceray/2008/05/06/157452_3.jpg" /></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.scienceray.com/Earth-Sciences/Geology/Five-of-the-Worlds-Hottest-Volcanoes.120282">This is Central America's most active volcano.  Fuego is one of three large stratovolcanoes overlooking Guatemala's colonial town of  Antigua.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.scienceray.com/Earth-Sciences/Geology/Five-of-the-Worlds-Hottest-Volcanoes.120282"><H3>Mt. Pinatubo, Philippines</H3><IMG alt="" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/readers/scienceray/2008/05/06/157452_4.jpg" /></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.scienceray.com/Earth-Sciences/Geology/Five-of-the-Worlds-Hottest-Volcanoes.120282">the second largest terrestrial eruption of the 20th century.  It was measured as a 6 on the Volcanic Explosivity Index </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.scienceray.com/Earth-Sciences/Geology/Five-of-the-Worlds-Hottest-Volcanoes.120282"><P><IMG alt="" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/readers/scienceray/2008/05/06/157452_5.jpg" /></P><P><EM>   Mt. Pinatubo June 15, 1991</EM></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.scienceray.com/Earth-Sciences/Geology/Five-of-the-Worlds-Hottest-Volcanoes.120282"><H3>Mount Saint Helens, Washington, U.S.A.</H3><H3><IMG alt="" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/readers/scienceray/2008/05/06/157452_6.jpg" /></H3></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.scienceray.com/Earth-Sciences/Geology/Five-of-the-Worlds-Hottest-Volcanoes.120282">May 18, 1980</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.scienceray.com/Earth-Sciences/Geology/Five-of-the-Worlds-Hottest-Volcanoes.120282"><P>50 people were killed and more than 200 square miles of land (timber and recreational)was damaged.</P><P><IMG alt="" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/readers/scienceray/2008/05/06/157452_7.jpg" /></P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/1CAE84F5-E961-4D5C-A6BA-09E1E5A3D95B/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

alanocu says:

check out amgumen's clip: Volcanic Eruptions seen during an Eclipse: http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/12DC35AD-3184-4606-BB4D-9F6F8E41D4F6/

and The hottest spot in Antarctica: http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/12A8EA54-BCBC-436F-AD06-E4D8E563FD78/

and

The Largest Lake of Acid on Earth: http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/5A251CDD-80F4-4E55-9633-C25907244C44/

hitchhiker08's clip: Top 33 volcanoes on Earth: http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/CF65A97D-EFE1-499D-9B04-4D0F5D5C2071/

BobbyDelay's clip: Ancient Chaiten Volcano Erupts after 10,000 years: http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/5034DD8B-BE84-400F-B662-5EBC28B3EC4C/

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