Situated on the side of an active volcano, Whakapapa is easily New Zealand's most challenging ski resort and not just because of the threat of an eruption.
Time has felt confounding and elastic during these proceedings: the case revolves around an event that occurred thirteen years ago, which was reopened in part because of a recent eruption of allegations that span four decades.
Because of a volcanic eruption more than 5,000 miles away, Kenyan horticulture, which as the top foreign exchange earner is a critical piece of the national economy, is losing $3 million a day and shedding jobs.
Vines there have been traced back only to the mid-18th century, perhaps because of a volcanic eruption — the source of all that rich, black earth — that lasted for six years.
The weather was terrible and gloomy because of a volcanic eruption on the other side of the planet, and the party busied themselves telling ghost stories.
Temperatures had plummeted around the world, because of the eruption a year earlier of Indonesia's Mount Tambora.
Because of that eruption, and a 1984 emission at Lake Monoun 59 miles to the southeast, the people of the region have lived with the fear that these lakes will kill again.
Some 40,000 people died because of that eruption — it was a much more fierce event, and in a much more populated place.
It has been widely reported that Hastings got his big story because of a fluke – the eruption of Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland that trapped McChrystal and his team in Paris where they were on official business.
Obama, who was in Indonesia, flew away early because of the eruption of Mount Merapi — just two hours early, but that was a lot in a stay that was only meant to last twenty-four hours, after taking years to plan.
