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Geyser cone in El Tatio

... that El Tatio (pictured) is the largest geyser field in the southern hemisphere and one of two worldwide with the highest elevation?
... that although the 8.0M_w 1679 Sanhe-Pinggu earthquake devastated towns near Beijing, China, during the Qing dynasty, another large earthquake along this fault is not expected for 6,500 years?
... that Typhoon Page was the record-setting sixth tropical cyclone to hit Japan in 1990?
... that forest rings had gone unnoticed by geologists until aerial photography became a common surveying tool in the 1950s?
... that Calabria was once attached to Sardinia before it migrated to Sicily?
... that Russian painter Karl Bryullov inserted himself into his picture of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in The Last Day of Pompeii?

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