This sort of election-eve scandal is like a volcano on the brink of eruption.
This is the monster: the highest volcano on Earth, rising out of the grey moonscape of the Atacama Desert.
In 1883, a massive eruption of a volcano on the island of Krakatoa in the Sundra Strait between Java and Sumatra began.
Pinatubo, a volcano on the Philippine island of Luzon, began to rumble with a series of the powerful steam explosions that typically precede an eruption.
The highlight is the Haka Pei, in which male islanders (wearing only small loin cloths) toboggan down the Maunga Pui volcano on banana tree trunks.
The new owl's English name comes from Mount Rinjani, Indonesia's second-highest volcano, located on Lombok.
But trade here depends on the volcano and it is known as the gateway to Etna.
Seismologist Susanna Falsaperla told CNN that developments in technology mean scientists can now monitor every single change on the volcano.
Father-and-son-team Orazio and Salvatore Consoli help gather the seismic data -- three generations of their family have worked on the volcano.
His ancestor, who hailed from the town of San Miguel de Atlautla just below the snow line on the volcano Popocatepetl, was taken prisoner but was spared execution by a French army firing squad after it saw he had a birthmark over his heart.
In Hawaii, the Puna Geothermal power plant sits about 21 miles south of Hilo on the Big Island on the Kilauea Volcano.
The volcano strikes an ominous presence on the horizon - one of countless sleeping giants in Iceland that might one day stir, sending torrents of fire, rock and ash raining down.
The Eyjafjallajokull volcano in Iceland has wreaked havoc on European air travel.
Can you stand the erupting volcano of information incessantly vomiting down on you as you try to remember 12 things at once while reading your smart phone as you accidentally walk into other pedestrians?
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In Montgomery, the planters and their ladies danced on the lip of the volcano.
In traditional geothermal energy, engineers drill near a geyser, hot spring or volcano, stick a valve and turbine on the hot water, and that's pretty much it.
Natural disasters such as the eruption of the volcano in Iceland or the oil spill on the Gulf coast last year make us seriously consider the fragility of human strength against nature.
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Numerous helicopter companies (most based in Lihu'e) offer up-in-the-air jaunts over waterfall-striped Mt Wai'ale'ale, the island's central shield volcano and one of the wettest spots on Earth, and the sheer-hewn sea cliffs of the Na Pali coast, accessible otherwise only by ocean kayak.
About 320, 000 people have been forced from their homes on the lower slopes of the volcano and in the surrounding countryside.
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This activity could throw up rock fragments that would land in the crater itself or on to the flanks of the volcano.
We pass a white wall of mountains off to the left and, on the right, an active volcano with steam curling out of the vent.
On the northern side of the volcano, participants can watch lava spew out of the Earth from a tented camping site 1.5 kilometers away, which has been deemed safe by a volcanologist.
As the afternoon draws on, the sky clears and the volcano far to the east turns golden.
When the volcano last erupted in 1821, the eruption lasted on and off for two years, Gylfason said.
Saridal was established 45 years ago by semi-nomadic tribesmen on the edge of Karacadag, an extinct volcano east of Diyarbakir.
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Last year, a Russian-made Sukhoi Superjet-100 slammed into a volcano during a demonstration flight, killing all 45 people on board.
Like the earthquakes in Haiti and Chile, Eyjafjallajokul volcano, and Hurricane Katrina, we will eventually move on to other another crisis.
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Guests were forced to check out of the Volcano House Hotel and Restaurant at the Volcanoes National Park on the Hawaii's Big Island.
Another Thai survivor stuck on the "critical side" of the volcano awaits rescue, he said, because the steep slope and high elevation prevents a helicopter landing.
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