Most people considered the eruption a calamity.
On the night of the eruption, a less gentle dinner party is held.
Researchers surmised that the temples were preserved in pristine condition because they were buried in a volcanic eruption a century after they were built.
He sold all 12 when they fell sick after an early eruption, a forerunner of the blast that destroyed his family's home.
After an initial eruption, a large earthquake triggered a landslide from the Mayuyama peak, a 4,000-year-old 4,000-year-old 4,000-year-oldty of Shimabara.
During one eruption, a magma composed mostly of sodium carbonate issued from a volcanic vent that had been erupting alkali basalts.
If the premise is fuzzy, the show has some sharp art, including Carroll Dunham's witty "Solar Eruption," a giant battered yellow sun that suggests a cell invaded by virus particles, its perimeter bursting with splatlike -- and sometimes unseemly -- extrusions.
And local shamans, who carry on a system of worship for the volcano that dates back at least to its last major eruption a millennium ago, said there was no danger.
Themed hotels create cartoon worlds - Caesar's Rome, the Pharoahs' Egypt, New York's New York, a full volcanic eruption, a gondola ride along the Grand Canal in Venice, a view from Paris' Eiffel Tower over elegant Tuscan dancing fountains.
It is Korea's largest and most famous island, the result of a volcanic eruption, a place of dramatic waterfalls and crystalline formations of black basalt plunging into turquoise seas.
This allows the scientists to make a prediction: barring another major volcanic eruption, a detectable acceleration is likely to emerge from the noise of internal climate variability in the coming decade.
