The eruption also engulfed a small Maori village, Te Wairoa, in mud, ash and rock.
Its last eruption was in 1994, and traces of the black lava can still be seen.
However, Tuesday's incident isn't considered an eruption because it resulted in no lava flow.
It also signaled the eruption of Toshiro Mifune, the movie's feral bandit, into stardom.
This sort of election-eve scandal is like a volcano on the brink of eruption.
Suharto's family members appear to have been given the responsibility for averting a social eruption.
European leaders have been meeting regularly to resolve the European crisis since its eruption.
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The eruption of online video, and the strength of YouTube is another reason to be bullish.
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Oh but what about a solar eruption that reaches some half a million miles in height.
In the video below from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, we see a massive filament eruption.
"We cannot tell how long an eruption like this will go on, " Gylfason told CNN.
Eyjafjallajokull's most recent previous eruption, from late 1821 to early 1823, also had quite viscous lava.
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Scientists suspect that the planet might periodically undergo some global eruption that completely resurfaces the planet.
That led to an eruption of public anger, and big losses in local elections this month.
"Understanding the eruption process of these storms will definitely help us better predict them, " Zhang said.
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Still, a major eruption on the Lebanese front has the potential to ignite a region-wide conflagration.
It is hard to believe that such a beautiful place was borne from such a violent eruption.
As we all know, a volcano eruption over Iceland last week and has disrupted trans-Atlantic air travel.
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The two-day eruption and associated tidal waves killed some 36, 000 people and destroyed two-thirds of the island.
He said monitoring apparatus didn't record an earthquake and formation of magma, which usually precede an eruption.
The two cities on Italy's southern coast were buried following the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD79.
The landscape has remained virtually unchanged since the last eruption, thanks to minimal rainfall and government protection.
But few are prepared for a massive volcanic eruption that threatens to leave them stranded for days.
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That temblor killed more than 5, 000 people and triggered fears of an eruption from a nearby volcano.
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We saw the results of that in May last year following the eruption of Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull volcano.
Her appointment did not prevent another eruption of street violence in the heavily Muslim banlieues last month.
The scale of the volcano now is nothing like it was before the devastating eruption in 1980.
Now Lady Thatcher's eruption in Blackpool this week has left much of this careful work in shreds.
The album expertly delivers both a beautiful, melodic calm and a total eruption of emotions and sound.
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The landscapes in Yorkshire change constantly under shifting skies, from bleak wintry fog to the cheerful springtime eruption of daffodils.
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