Word: vulcanologists
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...duty in Hawaii National Park early Election Day, Vulcanologist Gordon MacDonald noticed telltale marks on the seismograph. After some quick calculations, he phoned Hilo police about a severe and distant earthquake. Seismic sea waves, he figured, might hit the Hawaiian Islands in about three hours...
...Take away the water," said a government vulcanologist, "and there's no difference between this volcano and land volcanoes. It is in the process of building up a cone. Most likely it has been in that process for centuries." Superstitious natives think otherwise. Some say the Didicas Rocks are the steeples of an old Spanish church, submerged long ago by God to punish some wicked Spanish friars. The smoking crater, they insist, is a hole in the church dome, a chimney for incense being burned by the long-dead friars as an act of repentance...
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