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The inhabitants of France’s Réunion island are no strangers to volcanic activity. Since the 17th century, the island has seen more than a hundred eruptions from one volcano alone, the picturesque Piton De La Fournaise.
So when the mountain rumbled in 1977, residents of the nearby village of Piton Sainte-Rose were prepared.
What came as a surprise, however, was that the flow of lava, which sped…
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