Erta Ale Volcano in Ethiopia Shutterstock/Tatyana Druzhinina
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So, volcanoes are scary. I have vivid memories of visiting Pompeii and Herculaneum with my parents and seeing the twisted preserved corpses of people that were buried under the pyroclastic flow from Vesuvius. The people in question lived in what was, at the time, one of the most technologically advanced societies on the planet – yet they died in their thousands. Volcanoes are one of those…
