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Northwest Saudi Arabia Vulnerable To Volcanoes [1]

Magma has worked its way up to just under the surface in a remote region of northwest Saudi Arabia, causing a flurry of small to moderate quakes and threatening to form a new volcano, researchers said Sunday.

A swarm of 30,000 quakes shook the region of Harrat Lunayyir from May to June last year and opened an 5-mile long rift, the U.S.

Publication Date: 
28/09/2010
Maggie Fox [2]
Planet Ark (Australia) [3]
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Saudi Arabia [4], Volcanic Eruptions [5], Natural Disasters [6], Earthquakes [7]
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