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The 1792 Mount Unzen Disaster: A Volcano That Killed Without Lava

This volcano barely touched a soul with its lava. It killed fifteen thousand people by falling into the sea. It's the spring of 1792, on the Shimabara Peninsula in southern Japan.

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