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volcanology

Study of volcanoes, the lava, rocks, and gases that erupt from them, and the geological phenomena that cause them.



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Based on what happened in the aftermath of the April quake, officials estimate that there is a 30 percent chance that shocks with a magnitude higher than 4 percent will hit the area in the span of a week, said Sonia Topazio of the Institute of Geophysics and Vulcanology.
Antonio Piersanti, director of the seismology department at the Rome-based National Institute of Geophysics and Vulcanology, said the massive destruction inflicted by the quake "is not normal.
They lasted from 1730 to 1736 and created one of the most astonishing legacies of vulcanology.
 
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