Word: volcanoe
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...Champs Elysées or the Côte d'Azur. Since 1946 the island has been a French département, like the country's 99 other local administrative units. Yet you don't have to spend long in the shadow of Réunion's active volcano to realize that the island is a long way from Lyons. Despite the French Republic's much-vaunted ideals of liberté, egalité, fraternité, Réunion is a place where First World and Third World meet...
...campaign song ricocheting off the walls of the surrounding buildings at earsplitting volume. Grossat reeled off a few statistics about his town: 40% of the people are illiterate, unemployment runs at 41%. As Réunion's voters filed into the polling booths, local papers warned of a volcano alert. In the event, it didn't blow. But one of these days it just might...
After two days of scientific talks in a Pasto hotel, the geologists interrupted their meeting for morning field trips around and into the volcano. By early afternoon, geologists taking measurements and samples were scattered across the floor and steep rim of the volcano's crater when the mountain blew...
...Stanley Williams now tells it, he knew there was danger in leading an expedition of scientists into the throat of the Colombian volcano known as Galeras. After all, it was one of the most active in South America, with a history of violent eruptions dating back to the Spanish conquistadores. But the mountain seemed calm that fateful morning in January 1993 when Williams and 11 other volcanologists hiked over Galeras' rim to take its pulse--measuring tiny fluctuations in tilt, gravity, gas emissions and other signs of volcanic life. The scientists and a handful of tourists were spread out across...
...story starts in 1988 when, after 40 years of quiescence, Galeras began a fresh round of unrest that brought Williams and other scientists running to southern Colombia. Because Galeras hovered just a few miles above the city of Pasto (pop. 300,000), the U.N. put the volcano on its list of natural hazards in need of urgent attention. After shaking and coughing small eruptions for months, Galeras squeezed a plug of lava onto the surface that it blew apart in a dramatic eruption on July 16, 1992. Given the mounting activity, Williams had no problem enticing volcano experts from...