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As world population grows, more people are living in dangerous areas, including near active volcanoes.The project aims to increase study of these particular volcanoes--their historical timeline for activity, how we can better predict future activity, and, most importantly, what people can do to prepare for an eruption.The Decade Volcano Project has named 16 of these volcanoes as particularly worthy of investigation based on their potential for destruction.

As world population grows, more people are living in dangerous areas, including near active volcanoes. The Decade Volcano Project has named 16 of these volcanoes as particularly worthy of investigation based on their potential for destruction. The
project aims to increase study of these particular volcanoes—their historical timeline for activity, how we can better predict future activity, and, most importantly, what people can do to prepare for
an eruption.
It may seem strange to think of “defending” a town
against a volcanic eruption, but the project already
boasts several successes. For example, during the 1992 eruption of Mount Etna in Sicily, a lava flow was threatening the town of Zafferana. Local authorities blocked the flow
in a tube that was feeding lava from higher up the slope. They dropped large blocks of concrete from helicopters into the tube, successfully plugging and diverting the lava.