y, more ty copters and lig circled t. But as to develop into anytic, people greless, andt t going to bloer all.
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e all kno 8:32 A.M. on a Sunday morning, May 18, t and rock rusain slope at 150 miles an landslide in ory andcarried enougerial to bury ttan to a dept. Aminute later, its flank severely . omic bombs, sing out a murderous cloud at up to 650 miles anoo fast, clearly, for anyone nearby to outrace. Many people obe in safe areas, often far out of sigaken. Fifty-seven people y-toll it een miles away.
t person on t day e student named ion post 5.7 miles from tain, but interviee tion. aken by David Joon. Joon to report ts later emporary.
Eleven years later y-tists and journalists fatally caugpouring of supered asen rock—icflo Mount Unzen in Japan astrophically misread.
Volcanologists may or may not be t scientists in t making predictions,but t question t in t realizing ions are.
Less ter tastropcanley illiams of ty of Arizona, descended into tive volcanocalled Galeras in Colombia. Despite t years, only teenmembers of illiams’s party y s or otective gear. ted, killing six of tists, along ourists whers, including illiams himself.
In an extraordinarily unself-critical book called Surviving Galeras, illiams said er ed t ant seismic signalsand be is to snipe after t, to apply to ts of 1993,” e. y of notiming to do. I I ake responsibility. But I do not feel guilty about t. tion.”
But to return to ason. Mount St. teen of peak, and 230square miles of forest ated. Enougrees to build 150,000 s) $2.7 billion. A giant column ofsmoke and aso a of sixty t in less ten minutes. An airlinersome ty mile