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tv   Germanys Volcanic Eifel Region  Deutsche Welle  January 28, 2024 2:15pm-3:01pm CET

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the volcanic i sold a landscape forged and fire shaped fine. awesome, elemental forces, deep, underground, huge glowing chunks of rock. ash that covered everything in minutes and foamed a one of a kind landscape. the volcanoes fell silent some 10000 years ago, but they're only sleeping, the ease, something brewing deep below the surface of the eye. so how great is the danger that the volcanoes will roll back to life? the, the, the in the east, if the volcanic eiffel near under. now,
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the forces looking benny cus showed themselves the cold water goes up the highest in the world. the every 2 hours the water jet erupt, reaching up to 60 meters in yeah. the going so, leaks explains mineralogy, thorsten lumber. the fuzzy that's you'll see like a 0 stage guys, a rupture and is the name i thought just as each volcanic eruption is unique. hot tosses the rupture unleashes powerful. volcanic forces deep beneath the full as carbon dioxide from the fluid. magma meets the ground water. more and
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more c o 2 bubbles collect 350 meters below the surface. when it finally erupt, the entire war to call them is propelled upward. a yes through it's month to month and it, but that's gone. yeah. you can really see and feel the whole volcanic process. obviously somebody helps you understand the pressure and power behind it and it'll shoot another volcano erupt in the iphone bunky. and i think you don't put candles present the but when will that happen? the volcanoes of the life will, will low thoughts extinct. now we know that only dormant deep underground, the colder and is still bubbling the, the traces of the last incident of a still clearly visible today. at
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1st glance, lake last is a tranquil body of water. but it was created by the most powerful volcanic eruption in recent central european geological history. 13000 years ago, the it's traces can be found on the nearby. vien gets big funds, the amended, the geologist goes to huffman and phone university. the will is a window into the distant past, the launcher for that's a 1000 john's 13000 years ago. this landscape didn't look fundamentally different from today. and then suddenly, there was this explosion, 200 hurled ash and trucks, some 40 to 50 kilometers into the atmosphere. here, the,
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the mass either option lasted several weeks. has 1000 degrees celsius magma, middle ground water reservoir. the of the mountain top above was blown off by an explosion and steam as a huge column of ash with catapulted columbus is up into the at the other one is these are at some point this column collapsed and red hot ash rushed through the landscape along the valleys and through the brother valley, for instance, when it's reached the rhine river, which already existed fact then cut the river off. the ashen debris swept over every thing and left behind a blanket, several meters deep, th,
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and stepped on. it's farther the funds of what kind of pools just old stone describe this one kind of corruption tom designed and created a recivore around what is known if you today is the largest dominance at some point that broke on the hunters and others settled in the area experience to catastrophes and one lifetime would come. all schools 1st slopes and i felt kind of corruption and then a gigantic quarter search that went to all the way down the ryan valley into today's netherlands. the, as the blue products presumed on the list of all kind of explosions. and i thought it was more an explosion than interruption. this explosion, 13000 years ago, left us traces is poor and you can see them on the wall here. as for us, these are, this is like a history book. and so the we can study at the centrally read had this phone kind of explosion happened to cut off each single layer is like
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a high resolution snapshot of an individual phase of the russian. it will to the postman regularly leads groups of scientists through here the layers of the will reveal the stages of the volcanic eruption. it doesn't say english, there's no model by so and so, and what's crazy is that such in there usually shows several tens of thousands of years with a few bonds. even here we have a 13 meter cross section that represents a few weeks at the most. this is just a few minutes. this single there is a collapse in cloud november's, or any kids are saying o c. and if i pulled the stone notes, this is different, so it's not. and then sarah and we and a we night with the red, blue mineral expelled from the mcmahon. or the i feel is one of the most important sites for routine the world. ok. let me know at the moment if
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you look at it's under a magnifying glass, it's really beautiful. levine gets bad vanities punch of the unesco volcanic eiffel g or punk hoffman, and he's team and developing an app to allow virtual travel through the volcanic landscape. everything is precisely scanned and measured the new parking tom. i assume we using the volcanic eiffel jewel park as a reference model as the very 1st jewel park in germany that offers the completely digital turning package and all points of interest. and this park can be viewed the desktop app. the app works with super precise satellite data, much more exact than basic navigation or hiking apps, the $100.00. again,
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it is a bunch of the money and we want to map the while back there and 3 d for to do this . you need a lot of photos on the right image processing software. if the drone can get close enough, you can get a good 3 d image comes on the data one of the the drone can also reach sections of the will that otherwise difficult to access, the the camera scans at high resolution, so the computer can later generate a detailed image the, the various layers in the world are especially interested and they consist mainly of pumice and tough interspersed with rock fragments drank,
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stopped by the volcanic eruption, the dusky on every aspect on the thing. it's background shows all the settlements this fall kind of corruption on earth. and it's been geologically proven that there were different interruption phases. you have to imagine it's not like an exploding powder cake, but like several atomic bombs on it. and that's how powerful the home them so dentist, a lot of the big i know it's always cool as long as the so what i'm the kind of just we country without a fresh eruption, only class or other volcanic structures here in the life of us and we can only hope that would be enough warning by the for example in the form of earthquakes warms when we don't want to paint to har. scenario bush of what happened. 13000 years ago happened again today in a densely populated region like the rhineland. as a treat would be catastrophic, i learned to mr. foster father large cities like phone
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industrial plants and refineries. the rhineland chemical belt, cologne with mold and a 1000000 people. how can the region possibly protect itself from such a natural disaster? the federal academy for civil protection and disaster assistance. b, a b k in the valley generates scenarios because such disasters. professor klaus right you to is researching possible consequences of a fresher option of the lake loc volcano. wasn't able to own, so i think even disabled it would be a very high eruption. collins, i know the ambulance would be closed off immediately because a landing simply would the possible. then you'd have to see how far and how quickly the rushing cloud spreads,
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depending on the wind direction to move into the league of class. and the from thing we'd have to consider whether verbs was still usable with a critical infrastructure like trains and the power grid still worked. 20 cutting vehicles may be able to drive on the free ways to evacuate people's a book, but then things would get difficult. there are no other escape routes as you can exist in the problem is that in strongly con to landscapes like the valley or he in the eiffel people have settled in the valleys and so there are only 2 ways out and forwards and backwards. there is no other option, so i have the host to come full until the sign has been sent to the dispute. you must be losing the shape of also the depending on where we uh, they will probably be casualties as well for that. so indeed to hospital is must be
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prepared for this specific types of injuries that volcanic eruptions can cause. cotton was especially bones or stuff. so they have to have dedicated burn unit. but they also need specialized units for the se amputations and emergency surgical procedures. if that would be necessary after enough quick via the businesses, unless he does nobody the that is it even possible to prepare for such a disaster? the people who humans play in order for evacuation plans or rules of conduct, what people should do in a specific situation. that's difficult, right now. there are no plans in place like that, and that may be a mistake, but i don't think it's absolutely necessary yet. unlike with flooding, volcanic eruption allows more response time because it's less of me at sight.
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volcanic eruptions come with ample warning in the form of trend is and gas emissions. at lake law, it's easy to forget that the ground below has still not settled. the old vocab and create to is a unique natural paradise the but at the lake's eastern show, there is still signs of volcanic activity, mo, fence carbon dioxide bubbling up through the war. so the nearby, the jersey would spill to study and recreation home. so young monk c, 1970, when 8 of them died, inexplicably gas emissions from the lake. so what blamed the
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the young man with buried on the grounds of today's maria last abbey. in the crypt under one of the smaller chapels with the monks really a 60 i said has never been confirmed. 6 the professor hoffman and his team of geologist, the lake is of great interest the most fits are important to better understand volcanic activity in the eiffel. and to observe any changes the to, and viewers and shop lovers and statements in which you, scientist, the system affects show that there is still a volcanic activity here at least a certain it's not only ever molten rock that comes out of the ground just involved
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in the, it's mostly gas, gosh, and this is why the amount of escaping gas is continuously monitored. the ending it soon switched jackson gas if we saw a gas emissions increasing, it would be a sign that there is activity underground, perhaps indicating a coming boat kind of corruption hospital in boy. today we know that the gas bubbles and mostly carbon dioxide, escaping from huge magnet chambers about 40 kilometers on the ground. but what does that tell us? does the gas come from the magma the russian brought forth 13000 years ago, which is still slowly cooling? is fresh magma foaming under the lake. as a new study involving research is from several gym and institutes raises these
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question. numerous weak trim is a great depth indicate that meg, my ease in motion. but there are no sort of a signal. so i thought that the volcano was preparing for another interruption, the further west, the famous months, a residence of hell, volcanoes shaped the landscape. the deep finds of the eiffel divine feldman knew down is locally called the ma as the dead because of the neighboring cemetery. the wood, it's closed quite a ring. the pulls a ma is the deepest at more than 70 meters. it seems bush, unless the
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sofa told her so cloudy, a v by gibbet. the shelton marin ma is the most beautiful. she is published a book of underwater photos from the crater lakes, which she worked on for years. the fact they're under the tree there are always fish. i once search i can to type their decline the smoke perch always hide under the trees among the branches. that's nice to, i'm always happy to see the dos and the she comes here again and again, even when the temperature is dropping, the full. but it's the very special under water. well, the eiffel mines that fascinates the most
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the below the surface, the water of the mazda is still remarkably clear. no matter what the season at this time of year, the water is only 10 degrees celsius. in winter, it goes down to 3 or 4 degrees. the much, what happens would assume that it's an a cause the sometimes it feels like the caribbean because of the turquoise blue water from all. and there are so many fish in
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official if you just float quietly available to them right by you, by a common and when you died kind spot page by car and tension the hatch. there's really a lot to do. as a smoker, she left it says in down here flora and fauna a bound. although most of the most have no regular water in float. this said solely by rain morsa, which 1st sleeps through volcanic rock layers before flowing into the ma. well filtered and clean, the lesson is done. yeah, that's on. so what fascinates me is the depth of some of them are, so the programmer is 17 meters deep. and the shocking miramar is 35 meters to it means you can get a feel for it steps if the creature rims, what do you see? how the sharp drop continues under the short i will for one was a,
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shall we need to be aware that it could go off at any time. that's just the way it is on fossil and that's also the last direction was 12 or 13000 years ago. scientists say one should occur roughly every 10000 years. so in fact, we're overdue. the mazda in volcanic cones, grace the landscape within magical ch um and to test to the fiery past of the volcanic awful. the volcanic activity use still every way, even if it's not always apparent. at 1st glance,
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the in the volcanic going full region, the earth's surface is rising by about one millimeter per year. even more in some places. these can only be measured from high in the air. what's causing this? is it the gas is rising from the magnet chambers, deep, underground pool, hot springs, the, when the food comes to the eye. so traces of possible kind of captivity can be found in the topography of the landscape. a bustle, colin's rise from some of the numerous volcanic cones. often hicks agonal, the figures which shaped thousands of years ago during a volcanic eruption when hot lava escaped and then slowly cooler. the
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in the quarries of the volcanic eiffel lava best sold has been mined for centuries . as here near the village of strewn in the past, the hard stone was used for building houses and paving roads. even the banks of the rhine were fortified with 6 sided vessel columns. today the stone is mostly crushed into gravel and grits. bene down is the most, are strewn stone. he manages the b quarry and knows the long history of the place for you in the eyes, the solid and beyond. there were 3 big of options here. 34000 years ago of these concepts and this whole valley filled up with lava via phone to close. the geologist are still looking for the old of back valley down here. and then also does i just left off the,
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the lava flows solidified and phone the wide, 13 major stick layer of the best. so here's the phones advised me to look over there. for example, you can tell the difference. and down below, you can see the bus on to there and further up the beach wordly, where it gets some more reddish. and you can see that there is lava and all that you can really tell them there's a hard to just look back there. that's the bustle to there. you can see the lives of the. the 1969, cory workers stumbled across a sensation. a blast released a huge rock formation from the quarry, will 15 meters up the head 1st. they weren't sure what they were looking at. a cool sample cleared it up. it was a gigantic lava boom that had been flung out of the volcanic crater. the strong love of them was discovered back there and just laid there for some time
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. finally, they were in this, the policy of strong decided they wanted to. so the question was, how to get this thing over there. it weighs $120.00 tons. how do you move a stone, measuring almost 5 meters across, over the fields from the quarry to the village? we don't watch the wind. there's one up on up to a lot of pieces in mid deadlines and up as they waited until the ground had frozen over the winter with the eyes and slapping, says i'm to 5 and a well, that's bigger and plates together and rolled the bomb onto them. when i thought maybe i that should be, it took a large caterpillar and a bulldozer cushion from behind to move the boulder across the field to where they wanted it decided to go on to understand them. but where did the joint real come from? the cool sample revealed that the lava bone consisted of many layers that had built
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up one after the other around a cool, like an onion. a lot of them was probably flung upwards during the russian, and then repeatedly rolled back into the crater of the active volcano. in the process, it became sick and stick before it was finally encased in molten lava, where it remained until it was exposed in the quarry the today it's the main attraction of the smooth village of strewn. volcanic stone from the icy region was covered to building material as early as the middle ages. the maria la abbey was built mainly as of dunk, bustled and light tough, the at austin
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cathedral tough. these even found on the night sided central structure. the famous caroline, gee, an octagon, the v. tenix stone from the nearby only feed was also shipped along the rhine to help build cologne's cathedral and ice. so tough was continually used for repair. with brave men from the mineral rich village of vi been helped the 19 o one a railroad line was built now popular with tourists. as the full con. express these through the stone,
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like tough thomas and bustled to the rhine at the winter hub or in bruise. it was then load it onto the ships a lifeline. so the iso and a stroke of luck for the village of 5 in whitfield county, corruptions, full 100000 years ago, deposited a massive layer of tough perfect building materials for churches, the tough he's light and easy to work with the same. if you look back from the 19th century onwards, at the construction of cathedrals and volts were being, you realize this is ideal material lightweight and able to bet heavy loads. a nice, why is the humans but i deal for the slender arches
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stretching toward the heavens. the worlds of ham, but also built with tough from vibe in the stone masons, gave the stone. and it's characteristic surface texture with him. is she those? and which is a bow wow. oh, for the cuban shit. the do for the corey was also the production site in the stone was still dumped when it was brought to the store house on lava and then cuts into rough sizes for the stone masonry, steinmetz swish extortion through stuff i over at the stats of the 20th century mold in 1200 stonemasons. what to you? tough from vibe. in proof, a real boon to the small village to gush each vice for shy and tough is a soft stone made up of solidified default kind of ash, depending on where they are found. the layers can be course, are quite fine,
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good guns, pine, a dungeon that the showers that a hit does eat, minus the number of houses here, where you can see that the master's and the cory owners had the money to have a leverage besides both on the i'll send you a buzz on the vibe in was able to afford its own water and sewer network earlier than on the villages and had electricity as early as 1915. but the demand for tough fell from the 19 sixty's on woods and the boom ended today. the many tough houses still bear. witness to the village is full of my prosperity. the
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many volcanic cousins of the iphone window certainly used as quarries. some of them still provide living spaces today for the rulers of the middle ages, the top of such a volcano, it was a good place for a fortress. there were plenty of stones for building ends. what a panorama old brook console, for example, sits proudly at top of 460 meta high volt kenny cone. the new a book stands even higher as an altitude of more than 670 meters. but he's best known for the famous race cools at the foot of the mountain. the renewable agreeing was originally built to provide the pull eiffel region with a new source of income and onto the asphalt,
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on which famous racing drivers have done the lapse line. messes of love of best sold from the quantities of the volcanic iso to state your abilities. even when burying a numerous loads made them the ideal foundation the today, it's almost forgotten that the ancient ruin of new book castle sits on an extinct volcano. but the volcanic origin of many places can be seen from above the room. a bed is a cone and solidified slag in front of it. is this true ma? it's almost completely sealed, shut up the sum of the extinct volcanoes. provide the perfect conditions for recreational
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athletes. the may have failed. ma, for example, is popular with powered light is the what sets the smaller apart from others is the form of its crate to rim. it's very steep and so exposed in some places that it makes, but just the right take off slope above the steep curved crate to ring. you can fly perfect circles like the winds rise. and with the views like this, it's like a dream come true. the, the volcanic calling felisa world of water and not only because of its many months, there are plenty of places where water rises to the surface. as in the votes,
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she looked with its deep pools of volcanic tress of the list spectacular, but still valuable for the region is another phenomenon. there is springs everywhere in the eiffel, some hidden in the middle of the forest. andreas schuler from the volcanic eiffel, g, a puck knows where these trays come from. in the case of the guys in under. no, it's carbon dioxide that drives the ground water up through the volcanic rock. the that's what the special aspect of this area is. the fact that the water contains not only minerals, but also a significant amount of carbon dioxide, sometimes stop ice month, always excuse me. and we know from chemical studies that this, the to like other gases originates from the venting process of the magnet deep in
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the cross list in the upper mantle as well. so you could say that the iphones, mineral water is also contained the breath of the volcanoes and higher than the would raise these celtic for willing spring. the that's, this is here, this is the dash side to phase. it's carbonated, it's busy, and also it has a very, very high i am content on top. in fact, it's the mineral water with the highest i am content in the volcanic iphone isn't got. if you know we con dash side garalie stein down. almost every community here has its own spring. the settlements grew up around them . these at least this odds and so mine and been of these waters contain minerals
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and the guns and, and i'm may even have medicinal applications, intuitive properties. so good looks to be. and so the idea arose to capitalize on these properties, to bring some cash into the regions a month. and also it looks good to me like you're also paying today, the volt kenney calling the police known for its many varieties of curative mineral water. the rou, lake and the north west of the eiffel is also a drinking water reservoir. a massive dam holds back the ruler river at almost 80 meters in height. it protects the people down stream from a catastrophic flood. but what would happen is the dam was damaged, say, why a powerful the quick. this is why deep down in the dam daily inspections that performed to ensure everything is in order. this is the job of damn safety engineer
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band hod hipkins. the pendulum shows every little movement, minimal swings, and normal. they may not dam is functioning properly. but what is the nearby volcanic awful stance to rumble? if the volcanoes reawaken the 1st quakes would be the 1st signs related to my inbox, when that's when we're talking about around 200000000 cubic meters of water. tom height of 77 meters. if something happened it would be huge. and so we just have to make sure that the safety is guaranteed around the clock is here in the fall south of the volcanic, only 2 lines, an important measuring station else console stands and assigned valley of the most
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a river. the doctor bridget took snuff. my intro and hits, besides my logical observatory at cologne university, she and her colleague klaus lyesha visit the 12th century console regularly. they have no interest in orioles or targets. they going underground the here in the deepest volt of the castle, directly on the rocky ground. the university has installed a highly sensitive science, mcgrath it registers every vibration, no matter how gentle the it's you, i'm the i for i'm this will here in the i said we have on average about 50 to
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a 100 tremors a year. but most of them are so minor that they cannot be solved by humans, which my for mentioned bonnie muslin that's, that's the whole what's this distance remo, exactly. isn't that something let us give us just before 12 or 12 it will have to take a look later. it was relatively short quarters. oh, those were just so this waves from a bloss to thing and then from ice cream, one of the calls that could be this course to be most of the strongest quick, we have reported with instruments less than 2007 nearby which had a magnitude of 3.9 and was felt over a great distance and found them back and it was in 2013. but this one is my logical station recorded an unusual phenomenon that is occupied. the scientific world ever since. first trim is from deep beneath the full, the
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doesn't alter, keeps me in the dark, based with the deepest quakes ever recorded in germany. and they had a special signature. the only thing that's what they look different from the quakes . we usually see here. this does not necessarily mean that maxima is rising, but there is definite movement and with the movement that could indicate that maxima is gathering again on the ground. the volcano is becoming active. these raises questions, the emissions you gotta somebody in which areas should we actually expect this sort of mainly in the area of like laugh or perhaps even further west. horrible conic centers were more recently active, but the goal is to better understand what is down there and how dangerous it may be . that auto see a goal shed by
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seismic geologist, professor russia to at the federal academy of civil protection. for his work, the measurements are important to indicate is the, the people's insects i'm just inclined to shoot a hole in these earthquakes. very small trim is open ended the interesting point because such an accumulation may full cost of volt county corruption. hospital fine is that worked really well with a lot palm interruption to see if we had size make signals that effectively full cost. this maxima rise, the market pieces might be some lockman of duke and trinity, the diesel, loud enough time to prepare thousands of people for the massive erupt sion of cooper in the house and to bring them to safety from the ash and red hot lava
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knowledge which is just as valuable, so the ice will be a moving time. this is by steve, this idea of what we're doing here at the moment is passive. we're just listening to the us and trying to interpret signal noise coming from different depths. this could hear me now let's see to the earthquakes at lake last, where the deepest earthquakes in all of germany, a record they go down to about 40 kilometers, which means that we have to position additional devices and listen to different locations against window. she the with us as to as possible, and that's what we're working on, and why the eiffel is a real laboratory for us, a moving research project. and why it is actually a jewel of research of volcanic activity in germany. this weekend is moving towards the end of june, bonus, bio of fire,
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still smoldering deep beneath the eye. so no one knows when the volcanoes will awaken. but one thing is certain, we will be ready for it. the the shift your guide to life and it did to, to 6 to the latest online trend. navigate your way through the digital jungle global perspective. we'll be your guide and show you what's possible. really message to you shift in 15 minutes on the w. there are many opportunities coverage. what if,
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