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some may be still on documented, but the documentation process is not that simple in box on. so now they have to go back, be able to go back, give it a, go back to college, done. what would they do there? there is no economy function and the cost on solid, on our ruling with an ard and our human rights situation, you know, go solely on the logs. so it's a very complicated situation. it's like a big these people to happen there for a very long time. she is taking a scene in the middle of the dash of the current and sasha organizing reconstruction to the beads. it's getting cold. the volunteers of winning when to freeze the emissions kids took those to rebuild, starts november 6th on dw,
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the volcanic i sold a landscape forged and fire shaped fine for some elemental forces, deep underground, huge glowing chunks of rock. ash that covered everything in minutes and foamed a one of the 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,
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if the volcanic eiffel near under. now, 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, that's the fuzzy. that's your 0 guys. your stage guys, a rupture needs you name. i thought just as age of all kind of corruption is you name hot dawson. the rupture unleashes powerful volcanic forces deep
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beneath the sol as carbon dioxide from the fluid. magma meets the ground water. more and more c o 2 bubbles collect 350 meters below the surface. when it finally erupt, the entire water column is propelled upward. it's just this one deep bonds in it, but that's gone. yeah, you can really see and feel the whole volcanic process obviously. so that helps you understand the pressure and power behind it and then shoot another volcano erupt in the eiffel monkey, and i can get them to colorado springs the but when will that happen? the volcanoes of the life of willow thoughts extinct. now, we know that only dormant deep underground the colder and is still bubbling the
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traces of the last incident of a still clearly visible today. at 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 states traces can be found on the nearby. vien gets big fund, 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. and this landscape didn't look fundamentally different from today. and then suddenly there was this explosion of hurled ash and trucks some 40 to 50 kilometers into the atmosphere.
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the, the mass either option lasted several weeks as 1000 degrees celsius magma, mesa, ground water reservoir. the of the mountain top above was blown off by an explosion of steam, as a huge column of ash with catapulted columbus is up into the the other one is these are at some point this column collapsed on red hot ash rushed through the landscape along the valleys and through the brother valley, for instance, when it reached the rhine river, which already existed fact then which cut the river off the ash and debris swept over every thing and left behind a blanket, several meters deep. th
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and it's got done. it's for the fringes of what kind of pulls to solve stone. describe this will kind of corruption. tom designed and created a recivore around what is known if you today is the logic stomach at some point that broke the hunters and others settled in the area experienced to catastrophes and one lifetime blue pulse pools. first of all, kind of corruption and then a gigantic water search that went all the way down the ryan valley into today's netherlands. the as the volcanic flood zone, done with this default kind of explosions. and it was more an explosion than interruption. this explosion, 13000 jews ago, left us traces is poor and you can see them on the wall here as, as rows. these are, this is like a history book and we can study of the centrally read had this volcanic explosion
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happened at all for each single layer. there's like a high resolution snapshots of an individual phase of the russian hill 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 this year, no matter why. so what's crazy is that such in there usually shows several tens of thousands of years, a few buttons, 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 other stand o c. and if i pull the stone notes, this is, i'm going to this, that's not, and sarah, and we, and a we night with the rad blue mineral expelled from the mcmahon.
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the eiffel is one of the most important sites for reaching the world. ok. let me know at the moment if you look at it's under a magnifying glass, it's really beautiful. levine gets bad vanities punch of the unesco volcanic eiffel g o talk 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 of the very 1st jewel park in germany that offers a completely digital turning package and all points of interest in this box can be viewed the soft them to get caught up with the app works with super precise satellite data, much more exact than basic navigation or hiking apps,
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the 100. again, it is a bunch. do you mind here? we want to map the while back there and 3 d doctor up 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 cameras scans at high resolution, so the computer can later generate a detailed image the, the various layers in the wall are especially interested and they consist mainly of
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pumice and tough interspersed with rock fragments drank, stopped by the volcanic eruption the aspect, once in the thing, it's backbone shows all the settlements, this kind of corruption on earth. and it's been geologically proven that there were different or option 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 homebound so dentist, a lot of ridiculous. i know it's always cool as long as the so what i'm the punished weed country without the fresh eruption on lake loss or other volcanic structures here and the eiffel that's. and we can only hope that would be enough warning by the for example, in the form of earthquake swarms 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. that's the truth would be
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catastrophic. i learned to mr. foster father large cities like bone 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 cause such disasters. professor klaus right you to is researching possible consequences of a fresher option of the lake lock volcano to look able to own so i think even disabled it would be a very high interruption calling design. that's the act which would be closed off immediately because
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a landing simply would the possible. then you'd have to see how far and how quickly the rushing cloud spreads, depending on the wind direction to move into the league of class. and then we'd have to consider whether vice was still usable with a critical infrastructure like trains in the power grid still worked. 20 certain vehicles may be able to drive on the free ways to evacuate people, but then things would get difficult. there are no other escape routes as you get 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, it's why the host to come full until they sign because it gets sent to the
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dispute is lashania. we'll talk to you depending on where we uh, they will probably be casualties as well for that. so when do you do? hospitals must be 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 se amputations and emergency surgical procedures if that would be necessary after another quick via beam businesses, i'm going to be just nobody the that is it even possible to prepare for such a disaster? the people who humans play in the order for executive ation plans or rules of conduct, what people should do in a specific situation. that's difficult, right now. there are no plans in place. and that may be a mistake, but i don't think it's absolutely necessary yet. unlike with flooding,
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volcanic eruption allows more response time because they trust me. outside volcanic eruptions come with ample warning in the form of trim is an gas emissions at lake law. it's easy to forget that the ground below has still not settled. the old volt kinda crate to is a unique natural paradise the but at the lake's east and 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
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the the young man with buried on the grounds of today's maria last abbey. in the crypt under one of the smaller chapels, whether the monks really is fixated has never been confirmed the foot 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 tune, cubism, shop stuff is interesting to me to you,
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scientist. the system affects show that there is still a volcanic activity here. so just a 2nd. it's not only ever molten rock that comes out of the ground just involved in the it's mostly gas costs. and this is why the amount of escaping gas is continuously monitored. the convenience see and for stack and gas, if we saw a gas emissions increasing, it would be assigned that there is activity underground perhaps indicating a coming well kind of corruption who's competing going today. we know that the gas bubbles a 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 onto the lake. a new study involving researches from several
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gym and institutes raises these question numerous week trim is a great depth indicate that meg, my ease in motion. but there are no further signals. 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 failed mind. new down is locally cold, the month of the dead. because of the neighbouring cemetery, with its closed crate to ring the pulls a ma is the deepest at more than 70 meters. it seems bush unless
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the the photographer cloudy a v by gibbet, the shelton marin ma is the most beautiful. she is published a book of underwater photos from the crates of lakes which she worked on for years . the fact there under the trees, there are always fish on one side can take take there because i smoke perch always hide under the trees among the branches. that's nice to, i'm always happy to see the dawson the she comes here again and again, even when the temperature has dropped into full. but it's the very special under
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water. well, the, the iphone mines that fascinates the most the below the surface, the water of the mas, he's still remarkably clear no method 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
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what happens at assume that it's in the kazi, sometimes it feels like the caribbean because of the turquoise blue water. how often there are so many fish in efficient. if you just float quietly, they will swim right by you by common. and when you died kind spot page by car and tension the hatch, there's really a lot to you. as a smokeless refuge says in down here flora and fauna, a bound. although most of the most have no regular water in float. the fed solely by rain morsa, which 1st sleeps through volcanic rock, lay as 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 they're striking man, and mark is 35 meters deep on monday you can get
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a feel for it. steps at the creature room. what do you see? how the sharp dropped continues under the short i will for one was or should we need to be aware that it could go off at any time? that's just the way it is on folks to the. 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 and volt tenant cones grace the landscape within magical chum, and to test to the fiery past of the volcanic eiffel, the
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volt, and i can give it to you still every way, even if it's not always a parent. at 1st glance, the interval penny going full region. the earth's surface is rising by about one millimeter a 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 ice, all traces of possible kind of captivity can be found in the topography of the landscape. bustled columns, rise from some of the numerous volcanic cones. often hicks, i can know the figures which shapes thousands of years ago during
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a volcanic eruption when hot lava escaped and then slowly cooled. the in the quarries of the volcanic eiffel lava best sold has been mined for centuries . as here near the village strewn in the past, the hard stone was used for building houses and paving roads. even the banks of the rhine well fortified with 6 sided vessel, collins. today the stone is mostly crushed into gravel and grits bene down is the most are strewn stone. he manages the b. cory knows the long history of the place, or in the eyes, the solid and beyond. there were 3 bigger options here, 34000 jews ago of these concepts, and this whole valley filled up with lava follicles. the geologists are still looking for the old of back valley, down here,
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and then also stuff i just left off the, the lava flows solidified and phone the wide. so is he made a thick layer of bass salt. here's the thumbs of the companies there. for example, you can tell the difference, and down below you can see the bus on flare and further up, be sure where it gets more reddish. you can see that there are a lot of asking, and although you can really tell them there's of hard to just look back there, that's the bustle to there. you can see the love of the. the 1969 cory work has stumbled across a sensation. a blast released a huge rock formation from the cory will 15 meters up. at 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.
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the strong love of them was discovered back there and just lay there for some time . finally, they were just a policy of strong decided they wanted to them. the question was how to get this thing over there. it weighs $120.00 tons to them. 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 the one up on up to a lot of pieces of vintage lined up as they waited until the ground had frozen over the winter of the items. nothing since i'm to 5. and they welded to be gone and plates together and rolled the bomb onto them. without telling me that i that should be, it took a large caterpillar and a bulldozer, crushing from behind to move the boulder across the field to where they wanted it decided i don't understand them.
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but where did the giant real come from? the cool sample revealed that the lava bone consisted of many layers that had built up one after the other around a cool, like an onion. the law, the bomb was probably slung upwards during the rupture, and then repeatedly rolled back into the crater of the active volcano. in the process, it became sticker 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 this move. 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 out of the dock bustled and light
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tough the at austin cathedral tough. these even found on the night sided central structure, the famous caroline g and ok to go on. the v tenix stone from the nibbling, i told, 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 val khan express these
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through the stone, like tough thomas and bustled to the rhine at the winter hub or in bruise, it was then loaded onto the ships a lifeline. so the iso and a stroke of luck for the village. a vibe in whitfield county, corruptions full 100000 years ago, deposited a massive layer of tough perfect building materials for churches. the sauce is light and easy to work with the same. if you look back from the 19th century onwards, at the construction of cathedrals and volt ribbing you realize this is i do material lightweight and able to bit heavy load. just thought a nice,
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why is the humans back ideal for the slender arches stretching toward the heavens. the worlds of ham, but also billed with tough from 5 in the stonemasons, gave the stone and its characteristic surface texture with him is she's those and which is a f o r y o for the q and shit. the go 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 situation extortion through stuff i hope to at the start of the 20th century mold in 1200 stonemasons. what to you? tough from vibe in brooks, a real boom to the small village. to gush each vice for shy and tough is
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a soft stone made up of solidified default kind of ash, depending on where they are found and see. the layers can be course are quite fine . good guns, pine wood, dungy showers, a yet does eat, minus the number of houses here, where you can see that the masters and the cory owners had the money to have a leverage besides both on the other side and to a. ready 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 months the tough sail 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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the many volcanic cousins of the eiffel with no certainly used as quarries. some of them still provide living spaces today of the, 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 and was a panorama old brook console, for example, seats proudly a top of 460 meter high volcanic cone. renewable stands even higher as an altitude of more than 670 meters. but he's best known for the famous race course at the foot of the mountain. the renewable agreeing was originally built to provide the pull eiffel region with
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a new source of income and onto the asphalt, on which famous racing drivers have done the lapse line. messes of love of best salt from the quarries of the volcanic ice, so that your ability, even when bearing a numerous loads, made them the ideal foundation the today, it's almost forgotten that the ancient ruin of new a 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 the stroma. it's almost completely sealed at up the
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sum of the extinct volcanoes provide the perfect conditions for recreational athletes. the may have failed. ma, for example, is popular with powered light is the what sits, the smaller apart from others is the form of its crate to rim. its 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 only police, a world of water and not only because of its many months,
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there are plenty of places where water rises to the surface. as in the voltage shift with its steep walls, the volcanic trends 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 the in under now it's carbon dioxide that drives the ground water up through the volcanic rock. the, the see a special aspect of this area is the fact that the water contains not only minerals but also a significant amount of carbon dioxide which device mon, oh,
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is the same as, and we know from chemical studies that this, the to like other gases originates from the venting process of the magnet deep in the cross list and the opera mantle as well. so you could say that the iphones, mineral water is also contained, the brass of the volcanoes and height in the would raise these celtic for willing spring. the that's this is, this is the dash side to raise it's carbonated. it's susie 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 be con josh. i garrulous stein down. almost every community here has its own spring. the settlements grew up around them
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. that place this odds. and so mine and been of these wood is contain minerals and the guns and a number 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 all, it's all scared to me like your plan. today, the bo county calling police known for its many varieties of curative mineral water . the ruined lake in 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 this quake. this is why deep down in the dam daily inspections are
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performed to ensure everything is in order. this is the job of dam safety engineer band hod hipkins. the pendulum shows every little movement, minimal swings, and normal. they may, madame, is functioning properly. but what is the nearby volcanic eiffel stance to rumble? is the volcanoes reawaken? the 1st quakes would be the 1st signs leading to my end. but it's 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
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here in the fall south of the volcanic i so lies an important measuring station else console stands and assigned value of the most a river dr. bridge, you took snuff by a intrude hits besides my logical observe a tree at cologne university. she and her colleague klaus fleischer visit the 12th century console regularly. they have no interest in oreos 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
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mitzy i'm the i for i'm this will here any i said we have on average about 50 to a 100 tremors a year. but most of them are so minor that they cannot be felt by humans since my form mentioned bonnie muslims. especially, oh, that'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 effect 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 was in 2007 near. besides, which had a magnitude of 3.9 and was felt over a great distance and the found on bottom it was in 2015, but this one is my logical station recorded an unusual phenomenon that is occupied
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. the scientific world ever since. first trim is from deep beneath the awful the keeps mimi and touch base with the deepest quakes ever recorded in germany. and they had a special signature. that's what they look different from the quakes. we usually see here that 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 emission given them not to someone in which areas should we actually expect this mainly in the area of like class or perhaps even further west horror. volcanic centers were more recently active. the goal is to better understand what is down there and how dangerous it may be. i don't,
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does that auto see a goal shed by 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 the woman 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 seismic signals that effectively full cost this maxima rise, de jesus might be some lockman of duke and trinity, the diesel, loud enough time to prepare thousands of people. so the massive erupt should have cooled brandy, a house,
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and to bring them to safety from the ash and red hot lava knowledge, which is just as valuable. so the ice a whole bunch of the morning time hunters 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 signals coming from different depths is, can you 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 and guns window sheet. the with us as to specify move 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 we can use moving towards
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like a jew bonus bio of fire, 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 of the rocks forgotten children press on their father's members of isis, far tit for in prison. and so they are forced to work together. they search for use of all things. they are societies outcasts, the scraps collectors, most of those in 30 minutes. d,
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