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Worst Volcanoes Even More Dangerous Than Feared
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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/c88ce3cb-0b18-4816-b165-34326ebaee3c/60416FA1-C3F9-46C4-8420-1CACCB5C156B/" 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://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/10/091007-volcano-eruption-chaiten.html" href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/10/091007-volcano-eruption-chaiten.html" style="font-size: 11px;">news.nationalgeographic.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/10/091007-volcano-eruption-chaiten.html"><H1 class="newsTitle">Worst Volcanoes Even More Dangerous Than Feared</H1></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://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/10/091007-volcano-eruption-chaiten.html"><P class="intro"> Some of the world's most dangerous <A href="http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/natural-disasters/volcano-profile.html">volcanoes</A> can erupt much more quickly than scientists had suspected, according to a new study of the massive 2008 eruption of <A href="http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/places/countries/country_chile.html">Chile</A>'s Chaitén volcano. (See <A href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/05/photogalleries/volcano-photos">Chaitén eruption photos.</A>) </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://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/10/091007-volcano-eruption-chaiten.html"><P> Normally scientists can track the seismic rumblings that precede most volcanic eruptions for weeks or even months, as magma in the volcano slowly rises to the surface. </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://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/10/091007-volcano-eruption-chaiten.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/news.nationalgeographic.com/img/0895811B-478C-4588-A5AD-54064FC198BA" alt="chaiten volcano picture" /></div></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://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/10/091007-volcano-eruption-chaiten.html"><P> But when townspeople at the base of the Chaitén volcano first felt earthquakes on April 30, 2008, they had only 30 hours to get out before the long-dormant volcano began to blow its top. </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://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/10/091007-volcano-eruption-chaiten.html"><P> On May 3, 2008, magma rocketed up through Earth's crust, moving 3.1 miles (5 kilometers) up to the Chaitén volcano's surface in only about four hours. 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