Long-slumbering volcanoes can jolt to life faster than students drinking Red Bull, a new study suggests.
BIG ERUPTIONS As seen from space, the caldera of Santorini, Greece, appears as several islands surrounding the now-drowned center blasted out in a mammoth eruption around 1600 B.C. New research suggests this Bronze Age supereruption was preceded by rapid changes in the volcano’s magma.
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