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Prediction of volcanic activity (also: volcanic eruption forecasting) is an interdisciplinary scientific and engineering approach to natural catastrophic event forecasting. Volcanic activity prediction has not been perfected, but significant progress has been made in recent decades. Significant resources are spent to monitoring and prediction of volcanic activity by the Italian government through the... Read enhanced Wikipedia article
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    Prediction of volcanic activity

    Prediction of volcanic activity (also: volcanic eruption forecasting) is an interdisciplinary scientific and engineering approach to natural catastrophic event forecasting.
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    Volcano

    Prediction of volcanic activity
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    Bernard Chouet

    (For further information, see Wikipedia's entry: Prediction of volcanic activity .)
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    Mount Edziza volcanic complex

    These subglacial eruptions were not hot enough to melt a vertical pipe right through the overlying glacial ice, instead forming mounds of hydrated volcanic rock made up of volcanic fragments called hyaloclastite and lava that solidified into pillow-shaped masses called pillow lava deep beneath the glacial ice field. ... This area of long-lived volcanic activity has been studied and mapped in detail for many years by geoscientists.
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    Volcanism on Io

    On March 8, 1979, three days after passing Jupiter, Voyager 1 took images of Jupiter's moons to help mission controllers determine the spacecraft's exact location, a process called optical navigation. ... Summary of known Io volcanic activity, 1995–2001
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    Surtsey

    The undersea vents that produced Surtsey are part of the Vestmannaeyjar (Westmann Isles) submarine volcanic system, part of the fissure of the sea floor called the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. ... Although the eruption was unexpected, there had been some indications before it began that volcanic activity was imminent.
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    Io (moon)

    Another possible mission, called the Io Volcanic Observer, would launch in 2013 as a Discovery-class mission and involve multiple flybys of Io while in orbit around Jupiter, however at present, this project is also in the concept study phase. ... This heat is released in the form of volcanic activity, generating its observed high heat flow (global total: 0.6 to 1.6×1014 W).
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    Volcanism in Canada

    A major catastrophic eruption occurred in the Garibaldi Volcanic Belt about 2,350 years ago at a volcanic complex called Mount Meager. ... Recent volcanic activity
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    2004 and later volcanic activity of Mount St. Helens

    The 2004 and later volcanic activity of Mount St. Helens has been documented as a continuous eruption with a gradual extrusion of magma at the Mount St. Helens volcano in Washington, United States. ... Scientists closely monitoring the volcano have scaled back their predictions of a bigger eruption.
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    Geology of the Lassen volcanic area

    Between 3 and 4 million years ago, volcanic-derived mud flows called lahars streamed down several major mountains that included nearby but now extinct Mount Yana and Mount Maidu to become the Tuscan Formation. ... Occasionally volcanic activity was associated with the mountain building.

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Prediction of volcanic activity