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Chaiten Volcano, Chile
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Published March 11, 2009
Chile’s Chaiten Volcano remained active in early 2009, releasing plumes of ash and steam.
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Volcanic Activity on Mt. Erebus
Published February 19, 2009
Antarctica’s Mount Erebus may be covered with glaciers, but they do little to cool the volcano’s molten core. A lava lake is visible at the volcano’s summit.
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Bushfires in Southeast Australia
Published February 14, 2009
This false-color image from the Advanced Land Imager on NASA’s Earth Observing-1 satellite shows part of the 30,700-hectare (75861-acre) Beechworth Fire—which killed at least two people according to ABC news reports—on February 10, 2009.
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Landslide in Guatemala
Published January 15, 2009
On January 4, 2009, a mountainside in northern Guatemala suddenly collapsed, sending thousands of tons of rock and debris downhill and burying a nearby road. The event occurred in the state of Alta Verapaz, some 200 kilometers (124 miles) north of Guatemala’s capital city.
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