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Eruption Is Largest Yet for Rumbling Sumatran Volcano

By Lisa FlamSep 7th 2010 – 12:09PM
Binsar Bakkara, AP

Binsar Bakkara, AP

(Sept. 7) -- A volcano in Indonesia shot black ash three miles high today, its biggest eruption since waking up last week after being dormant for some 400 years. Lava, rock and ash streamed into the night sky from Mount Sinabung on the island of Sumatra just after midnight, Agence France-Presse reported. The eruption,...

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A volcano is an opening, or rupture, in a planet's surface or crust, which allows hot magma, volcanic ash and gases to escape from below the surface.

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