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World Service,1 min

Living in the shadow of a volcano

Science In Action

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Volcanologist Eliza Calder at the University of Edinburgh worries that people living in the vicinity of the recently erupted Volcán de Fuego in Guatemala don’t fear it enough because they are too used to the ‘persistently active’ volcano’s rumbles and explosions. (Image, A photographer runs away from a new pyroclastic flow spewed by the Fuego volcano in the community of San Miguel Los Lotes in Escuintla, Credit: Reuters.)

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