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Description: Original caption: Unzen volcano, Japan. House destroyed and partially buried by lahars in the Mizunashi River valley. Large rounded boulders are blocks of the new lave dome originally deposited by pyroclastic flows in the headwaters of the Mizunashi River and later remobilized by lahars. In this area, the threat of lahars during rainstorms caused thousands of people to evacuate their homes on many occasions.
Title: USGS-destructionby-unzenvolcano1993
Credit: USGS
Author: USGS / S.R. Brantley
Permission: This image is in the public domain in the United States because it only contains materials that originally came from the United States Geological Survey, an agency of the United States Department of the Interior. For more information, see the official USGS copyright policy.
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