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Pyroclastic Flow

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USGS/VDAP scientist checking the temperature of a pyroclastic flow that was generated by the 2006 eruption of Mt. Merapi in Indonesia. Photograph credit: The Indonesian Center for Volcanology and Geologic Hazard Mitigation

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