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Mount Anak Krakatoa, erupted four times, with the biggest followed by another that sent a column of smoke and ash 1,500 meters above its crater.
The discovery was made in a new study by scientists, which claimed that satellite data could predict volcanic eruptions for weeks or even months ahead.
A 2.5-kilometer-wide asteroid blasted into the supercontinent of Pangaea on the eastern border of present-day Wyoming some 280 million years ago, before the birth of the Rocky Mountains—or even the dinosaurs.
On January 15, a volcano in Tonga erupted, giving satellites their first view of a plume of volcanic ash flying into the mesosphere, Earth's third layer.
The plume from Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha‘apai behaved like a mega-thunderstorm that rose 58 kilometers (38 miles) into the atmosphere