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Ethiopia Experiences World’s Largest Lava Flow

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

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Ethiopia Experiences World’s Largest Lava Flow

Metre-wide cracks in the ground suddenly split open, as red-hot rock and ash are thrown violently into the air. It’s like a vision of how the Earth behaved in prehistoric times. Except these events have happened within the last three years in Ethiopia’s Afar region. And a matter of days ago there was more extreme volcanic activity there, with reports of the the largest recorded lava flow in history.

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