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Every true space cadet knows that the famous, 4,000-ft-wide crater near Winslow, Ariz, was made by a giant meteorite...
...years of records on Japan's biggest active volcano, Mount Aso, there are accounts of more than 3,000 eruptions, of one farmer injured by falling stones (in 1485), but not one death. On the floor of the crater-15 miles long and ten miles wide-live 60,000 people...
...last week, Aso's crater swarmed with sightseeing students and city dwellers on holiday. In the crowd were 39-year-old Police Chief Kunihiro Shikura and his three-year-old son, Chitose...
Suddenly, with a roar, Aso exploded. Huge, white-hot boulders and great clouds of glowing ash erupted from the cone. Shikura and son, who had been eating lunch on the outer edge of the big crater, tried to run down the slope. So did some of the panicked schoolchildren. They should have run the other way. Stones and ash cleared the farmland on the crater floor, spattered on the rim and outer slope...
Hours later, rescuers made their way to the crater's brink, found five dead, 65 injured. Near the rim, buried deep in the warm, black ash, was the body of Police Chief Shikura, his dead son clasped tightly...