But few are prepared for a massive volcanic eruption that threatens to leave them stranded for days.
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Berkley said that, according to scientists, the proposed Nevada waste dump is located in an earthquake and volcanic eruption zone.
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Marathon organisers are also monitoring the air pollution levels in London for any change caused by the volcanic eruption in Iceland.
She visited Cameroon to meet with people who live in a village that was decimated by a volcanic eruption in the 1980s.
Morgan said the origin of the ancient floodwaters likely came from a deep reservoir and were possibly unleashed by a volcanic eruption.
It is made of a jumble of fragments that have been cemented back together in the high temperatures of a volcanic eruption.
Maarten after a volcanic eruption on Montserrat in 1995, is now considered among the top 3 of 30 medical schools in the Caribbean.
British researchers suggested that a volcanic eruption in the Canary Islands might, one day, cause a tidal wave to swamp America's east coast.
However, scientists are testing the theory that the volcanic eruption has increased iron in the water and will prolong the spring blooms into summer.
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The island sits in the middle of the hurricane belt, and has around a 25% chance of enduring a big volcanic eruption within 25 years.
The story of every coming tornado, earthquake or volcanic eruption resides in decades of history and recent minutes of anticipatory gusts, tremblings, rumblings and other leading-edge indicators.
"Due to the Icelandic volcanic eruption causing flight cancellations by aviation operators, we have decided to postpone the MotoGP scheduled for this weekend, " said company president Oshima.
Understanding the changes caused by the volcanic eruption will help researchers predict how the oceans will respond to certain levels of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide, Fraile-Nuez said.
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Match referee Steve Bennett, who had been due to officiate the derby game, will miss the match after becoming stranded abroad following travel disruption caused by a volcanic eruption in Iceland.
They cannot compete against plants with leaves, but if a piece of land is cleared by, say, a volcanic eruption, they are often the first things to set up shop there.
Known collectively as the Crater Lakes, their 65m deep, tranquil ultramarine waters belie a violent past: both were formed anywhere from 17, 000 to 10, 000 years ago by a massive volcanic eruption.
That being said, at some point either the bulls or the bears will become exhausted and if a clean break is made out of either side of this channel it could have the force of a volcanic eruption.
Complicating the issue is the volcanic eruption of Toba, in Sumatra, around 74, 000 years ago, which injected so much sulfurous dust into the high atmosphere that it caused prolonged droughts that might have come close to wiping out many human populations.
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One set of small-scale sunshine-reduction experiments discussed in Asilomar would send plumes of various sulphurous fluids in the stratosphere to find out which would best produce a haze of small particles similar to those that cool the planet after a large volcanic eruption.
There is a certain charm about a place where islands are created by council decree rather than by volcanic eruption or coastal erosion but perhaps the last word belongs with Olivier Mesnil, a French tourist who was staying on Island Roy when I paid a visit.
The man he is replacing - Sir John Beddington - had to provide advice on Japan's Fukushima nuclear accident, Iceland's volcanic ash eruption and the spread of Ash dieback.
England, one of eight teams yet to travel to the Caribbean for the 12-team tournament, could have flown from Dubai, if their scheduled flight from London had remained grounded because of the volcanic ash cloud produced by an eruption in Iceland.
Chemical reactions on the volcanic sulphate particles blasted into the stratosphere by the eruption accelerated ozone depletion over the southern hemisphere by about 3%.
The problem is being caused by a continuing eruption of the Eyjafjallajokull volcano in southern Iceland, which is pumping volcanic ash high into the atmosphere.
An eruption by the volcano in 1956 was "one of the three most significant volcanic events on the globe this century".
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