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The Planet's Violent Epicenter -A Sweeping Arc of 160 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/b6f7088a-2d84-4b2c-8e24-d48c238ab508/905D5158-35B6-4D03-9CD5-4B3D9FB6AC1A/" 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.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2009/09/the-planets-most-violent-region-an-arc-of-160-volcanoes.html" href="http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2009/09/the-planets-most-violent-region-an-arc-of-160-volcanoes.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.dailygalaxy.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2009/09/the-planets-most-violent-region-an-arc-of-160-volcanoes.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.dailygalaxy.com/img/D9ADECC4-167C-49E7-8E08-BA045F4CEC4C" alt="Volcano_3" /></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://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2009/09/the-planets-most-violent-region-an-arc-of-160-volcanoes.html">Karymsky, the most active volcano in the eastern volcanic zone Kamchatka Peninsula is a 1,250-kilometer long peninsula in the Russian Far East. The Kamchatka River and the surrounding Central Valley are flanked by large volcanic belts, containing around 160 volcanoes, 29 of them still active. The peninsula has the highest density of volcanoes and associated volcanic phenomena in the world, with 19 active volcanoes</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.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2009/09/the-planets-most-violent-region-an-arc-of-160-volcanoes.html">The highest volcano is Klyuchevskaya Sopka (4,750 m or 15,584 ft), the largest active volcano in the Northern Hemisphere], while the most striking is Kronotsky, whose perfect cone is a prime candidate for the world's most beautiful volcano. Deep seismic events and tsunamis are fairly common along the Kuril-Kamchatka Trench: a pair of megathrust earthquakes occurred off the coast on October 16, 1737, and on November 4, 1952</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.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2009/09/the-planets-most-violent-region-an-arc-of-160-volcanoes.html"><P><A href="http://www.dailygalaxy.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/02/14/karm2.jpg"><IMG width="409" height="275" border="0" title="Karm2" src="http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/images/2008/02/14/karm2.jpg" alt="Karm2" /></A>The Karymsky volcano is a symmetrical stratovolcano constructed within a 5-km-wide caldera that formed during the early Holocene.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></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;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/905D5158-35B6-4D03-9CD5-4B3D9FB6AC1A/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.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>
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