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Salvadorans hurl fireballs at each other during annual festival commemorating a volcanic eruption

September 5, 2011 @ 8:50 pm

This is the craziest festival celebration I’ve ever seen! Thanks Chris!

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Video of Icelandic volcano eruption

May 24, 2011 @ 1:08 am

Jon Gustafsson shot this amazing footage of the Icelandic volcano Grimsvotn erupting before his eyes as he rode aboard a helicopter with the Helicopter Service of Iceland. Look at that lightning shooting through those dark clouds!

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Raw video of Kilauea Volcano erupting in Hawaii

March 7, 2011 @ 10:13 pm

The crater floor of the Kilauea Volcano in Hawaii collapsed and raw video shows lava spewing up to 100 feet into the air. As always, raw video of lava flowing is incredibly mesmerizing. I CANNOT STOP WATCHING.

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Burned cows

October 27, 2010 @ 10:51 pm

Photo: CLARA PRIMA/AFP/Getty Images This is just about the saddest photo I’ve seen in a long time. These two cows, still alive after being badly burned, are the direct result of the eruption of Mount Merapi in Indonesia. If you … Continue reading →

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Another crazy video from inside a volcano

October 9, 2010 @ 11:03 pm

If you read this site regularly, you might have already seen that video I posted a few days ago of the folks descending into the pit of a live volcano. The video was pretty spectacular and Kottke posted this other … Continue reading →

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Descening into the pit of an active volcano

October 3, 2010 @ 2:37 pm

BoingBoing posted this insane video of a couple of daredevils rappelling down into the pit of an active volcano just a few hundred feet away from spewing lava! The pit is no doubt a very dangerous place to be not … Continue reading →

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