tv Germanys Volcanic Eifel Region Deutsche Welle January 27, 2024 9:15am-10:01am CET
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volcanic i sold a landscape forged in 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 a kind, landscape the volcano. it's still silent some 10000 years ago. but they're only sleeping, the ease, something brewing deep below the surface of the eiffel. how great is the danger that the volcanoes will roll back to life 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 gullies of 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. you'll see it all guys. you'll see huge guys, a rupture and is unique. i thought just as each volcanic eruption is unique, not to us is the rupture unleashes powerful volcanic forces deep beneath the full as carbon dioxide from the fluid. magma meets the ground water.
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more and more c o 2 bubbles collect 350 meters below the surface. when it finally erupt, the entire water column is propelled upward. so your 1st month, deep bonds in it, but that's gone. yeah, you can really see and feel the whole volcanic process obviously. so that helps to understand the pressure and power behind it and it'll shoot another volcano erupt in the iphone bunkie and i can get them to colorado springs 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 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, lo, kenny, corruption 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. and this landscape didn't look fundamentally different from today. and then suddenly, there was this explosion, 2 of hurled ash and trucks, some 40 to 50 kilometers into the atmosphere. the,
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the mass either option lasted several weeks as 1000 degrees celsius, magma, middle 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 heads up into the 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 broad valley, for instance, when it reached the rhine river, which already existed, fucked them with cut the river off. the ashen debris swept over everything and left behind a blanket, several meters deep, th,
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and stepped on. it's further the funds of what kind of schools i'm just all 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 and i felt kind of corruption from an event, 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 it was more an explosion than interruption. this explosion, 13000 years ago, left us traces fluid 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 volcanic explosion happened to cut off each single layer is like
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a high resolution snapshots 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 this year, 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 funds. even up 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 standing in the fight pulled the stone notes. this is different. so it's not, and so we and a we night with the red, blue mineral expelled from the mcmahon. the eiffel is one of the most important sites for routine,
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the weld. okay. yeah. let me know. i see. 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 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 use 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 a completely digital turning package and all points of interest. and this park can be viewed the sock them. tickets are up to 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 doctor up to do this. you need a lot of photos on the right image processing software. if the drones 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 interesting and they consist mainly of pumice and tough interspersed with rock fragments drank,
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stopped by the volcanic eruption the aspect once in 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 or option phases. you have to imagine it's not like an exploding powder keg, 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 close as long as the so what i'm the punished weed country without the fresher russian 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 one, 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, and that's the truth would be catastrophic island. serious type of safari,
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large cities like phone 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 generate scenarios because such disasters. professor klaus right you to is researching possible consequences of a fresher option of the lake loc volcano to look new able to own. so i think even disabled it would be a very high eruption column design of the app, which would be closed off immediately because a landing simply wouldn't 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 fruits. and we'd have to consider whether verbs were still usable with a critical infrastructure like trains in 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 will 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, so i the host to come full until they can assign to speed the this route you must be losing is lashania also 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 me response time because it's less of me at sight.
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volcanic eruptions come with ample warning in the form of trim is a gas emissions. at lake law, it's easy to forget that the ground below has still not settled. the old vocab and crate 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 creek on the one of the smaller chapels with the monks really a 60 a to it has never been confirmed. 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 cliff. it's interesting to me to you, scientist and the system affects show that there is still a volcanic activity here. so you start saying it's not only ever molten rock that
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comes out of the ground just involved in the it's mostly guessing of gas. and this is why the amount of escaping gas is continuously monitored. the v as in switched jackson gas if we saw a gas emissions increasing and 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 interruption brought forth 13000 years ago, which is still slowly cooling? is fresh magma foaming under the lake? a new study involving researches from several gym and institutes raises these
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question. numerous weak trim is a great depth indicate that magma easy in motion. but they're in those sort of a signal. so i thought that the volcano was preparing for another eruption the further west, the same as much as a residence of hell. volcanoes shaped the landscape of the deep fines of the eiffel . the vine failed mon you down is locally cold the month of the dead. because of the neighbouring cemetery, with its close cry to ring the, pull them out is the deepest at more than 70 meters. it seems bush unless the 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 there under the trees there, always fish on one side, i can to take there because i smoke large, 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 is dropping, the full. but it's the very special under water. well the, the iphone, mine's that 1st night. so the most the,
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the below the surface, the water of the miles, the still remarkably clear, no mess of 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 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
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in 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 you. as a smokeless refuge says in down here, flora and phone a bound, although most of the most have no regular water in float. this said solely by rain morsa, which 1st seats through volcanic rock layers before flowing into the ma, well filtered and clean. the lesson is done. yeah, that's fine. so what fascinates me is the depth of some of them are. so the programmer is 17 meters deep and they're striking. miramar is 35 meters deep on ones. you can get a feel for it. steps at the creature room when you see how the sharp drop continues
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under the, the short 11 was the should 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 and volcanic cones grace the landscape within magical chum, and to test to the fiery past of the volcanic eiffel, the volcanic activity use to every way, even if it's not always apparent. at 1st glance,
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the interval penny 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 only full traces of possible kind of captivity can be found in the topography of the landscape. the bustled columns rise from summit. the numerous volcanic cones often hicks, i can know 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, collins. 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 are solid and beyond. there were 3 big of options here. 34000 years ago of these, this concept, and this whole valley filled up with lava follicles. the geologists are still looking for the old of back valley down here, and then also does all of the others left off the,
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the lava flows solidified and phone the wide, 13 major stake layer of the best. so here's the funds of the companies there. for example, you can tell the difference, and down below you can see the best phone to there and further up wordly where it gets more reddish. you can see that there are a lot of asking, and although you can really tell that there is a hard to just look back there, that's the bustle to there. you can see the love of the 1969. cory work has stumbled across a sensation. a blast released a huge rock formation from the cory 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, we missed a policy of strong decided they wanted to them. 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 obviously they waited until the ground had frozen over the winter with the ice and stuff into the 5. then they welded to be going plates together and rolled the bomb onto them. when i thought maybe i that should be, it took a large caterpillar and a bulldozer question from behind to move to boulder across the field to where they wanted it decided, oh i'm a single octopus. but with the joint real come from the cool samples revealed that the lava bone
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consisted of many layers that had built up one after the other around a cool like an onion. a lot of them was probably flung upwards during the rupture, and then repeatedly rolled back into the crater of the active volcano. in the process, it became sticker and sticker 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 last abbey was built mainly as of dunk, bustled and light tough. the at austin
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cathedral tough is even found on the tight sided central structure. the famous caroline, gee, and octagon, the v. tenix stone from the nearby only only field was also shipped along the rhine to help build cologne's cathedral and ice old tough was continually used for repair with brave men from the mineral rich village of vi been helped of the 19 o one a railroad line was built now popular with tourists, as the full con, express disprove. the stone like tough promise and bustled to the rhine
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at the winter hub or in bruise, it was being loaded onto the ships a lifeline. so the iso and a stroke of luck for the village of vibe in whitfield county, corruptions, 400000 years ago, deposited a massive layer of tough perfect building materials. the churches, the tough is light and easy to work with the same. if you look back from the 19th century on woods at the construction of cathedrals and volt ribbing you realize this is i do material lightweight and able to bat heavy load is a nice why is the humans but ideal for the slender arches stretching toward the heavens?
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the worlds of handbook also built with tough from vibe in the stone masons, gave the stone and its characteristic surface texture with him is she's those, and which is a bow wow. oh, for the cuban shit. the do. 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 $1200.00 stonemason is what the tough from 5 bins growth. a real boom to the small village. troops gushed each via tough is a soft stone. made up of solidify default kind of ash, depending on where they are found and see the layers can be course,
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are quite fine. good guns, pine wood don't change at the shower, say 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 outside we apologize to a. ready vibe in was able to afford its own water and sewer and 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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. the many volcanic cousins of the iphone windows only 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 a top of 460 meta high volt kenny cone. the new a board 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 on to the ass votes on which famous
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racing drivers have done the lapse line. messes of love of best sold from the quantities of the volcanic ice. so said your ability, 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. that bag is a cone and solidified slag in front of it is the stroma. it's almost completely silted up the sum of the extinct volcanoes provide the perfect conditions. the recreational
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athletes 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. slug. above the steep curved crater ring, you can slide perfect circles if the wind is rise. and with the views like this, it's like a dream come true. the, the volt county county police, the 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 cock 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 which device month, always excuse me. and we know from chemical studies that this, the to,
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like other gases originates from the venting process of the magnet deep in the cross list. and the opera mantles as well. so you could say that the iphone is mineral water is also contained the breath of the volcanoes and tighten the would raise these celtic for willing spring. the that's this is here. this is the dash side to raise 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, be con josh. i gabriel stein down. almost every community here has its own spring. the settlements grew up around them. either place the sides in some island been of these waters contain minerals and the
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guns and number may even have medicinal applications and intuitive properties. so good looks to be. and so the idea arose to capitalize on these properties, to bring some cash into the region, some of them all. it was good to me like you own. so please. today the bo county county police known for its many varieties of curative mineral water. the rule lake and the north west of the field 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 if the dam was damaged, say by a powerful this quake? 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 band hod hipkins.
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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? if the volcanoes reawaken the 1st quakes would be the 1st signs we are leading 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 brigade took snuff. my intro and hits the signs, my logical observer, treat that cologne university. she and her colleague klaus fleischer 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, let's see, i'm the i for i'm this will here any 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 each month i mentioned bonnie baldwin as dustin how let's this distant trema. exactly. isn't that something about us? it was 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 that of calls that could be this course to be in. most of the strongest quick we have reported with instruments was in 2007 near side, which had a magnitude of 3.9 and was felt over a great distance and the found on the bottom it was in 2015. 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 iphone. the
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doesn't alter, keeps me in the dark, nice with the deepest quakes ever recorded in germany. and they had a special signature where 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 impression given him was not to someone in which areas should we actually expect this? mainly in the area of leg laugh 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. that auto see a goal shed by seismic geologist,
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professor russia to at the federal academy of civil protection. so he's what the measurements are important to indicate is the, the people's insect line is inclined to shoot the woman. these as quakes, very small trim, is open ended the interesting point because such an accumulation may full cost of all kind of corruption. hospital fine is that worked really well with a lot palm interruption. this year we had seismic signals that effectively full cost this maxima rise. the package piece is the might be some lockman of teak and changing the diesel, loud enough time to prepare thousands of people. so the method of rupturing of cooper at 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 your moving time month is, is by steve decides the 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 it, which means that we have to position additional devices and listen to different locations against window sheet. the what does this 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 before a search of volcanic activity in germany. this we can use 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 in good shape. what does our blood say about our health? what is the correlation between blood type and cobit infection? how is potentially life threatening step this detected and will be able to synthesize part of his oh boy. in good shape. in 30 minutes on d w, the
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