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Ellis Abel Learns.

In my own words

Why I love volcanoes

Three orange lava fountains jet more than 100 feet above the fissure 8 cone during the 2018 Kilauea eruption. Real USGS photograph used on the Ellis Abel Learns "Why I Love Volcanoes" page.
Three orange lava fountains jet more than 100 feet above the fissure 8 cone during the 2018 Kilauea eruption. U.S. Geological Survey, Hawaiian Volcano Observatory · Public domain
  • The inside of the earth comes out.
  • New land gets made right in front of people.
  • Scientists can tell when one is waking up.

What it really is

A volcano is a place where melted rock from inside the earth reaches the surface.

Three things to try today

  1. Find the closest volcano to where you live.
  2. Find out when it last erupted.
  3. Find out who watches it now.
USGS and PHIVOLCS scientists load crates of volcano monitoring instruments into the back of a military helicopter before field work. Real USGS photograph used on the Ellis Abel Learns "Why I Love Volcanoes" page.
USGS and PHIVOLCS scientists load crates of volcano monitoring instruments into the back of a military helicopter before field work. USGS archives · Public domain

For the grown-up reading this

The USGS volcano observatories publish live data. Real monitoring, free, today.

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