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The largest rock fragments ejected by a volcanic eruption usually fall back to earth near their place of origin, and most of them are sand-sized pieces of ash and dust. \u00a0During the very violent eruption of Italy\u2019s Mount Etna in 1669, however, \u201chuge boulders, some weighing as much as three hundred pounds, were shot several miles through the air\u201d \u00a0(quoted at 173). \u00a0\u201cVolcanic bombs over three feet in diameter were thrown over three miles during the 1938 eruption of Asama in central Japan.\u201d \u00a0During the 1815 eruption of Tambora, fist-sized stones fell up to 25 miles distant from the volcano.<\/p>\n
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An eyewitness of two successive phases of the 1754 Taal eruption in the Philippines had this to say:<\/p>\n
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On November 15, it vomited enormous boulders. \u00a0More intense earthquakes than had been experienced before tottered those houses which still stood. \u00a0Immense waves of water in the lake threatened the low-lying villages along its shores.<\/span><\/p>\nAt 7 in the morning of November 28 occurred a new paroxysm, during which the volcano vomited forth such masses of fire and ejecta that in my opinion, all the material ejected during so many months, if taken together, would not equal the quantity which issued at that time. \u00a0The columns of fire and smoke ascending higher than ever before, increasing every moment in volume, and setting fire to the whole island, there being not the smallest portion of the latter which was not covered by smoke and glowing rocks and ashes. \u00a0All this was accompanied by terrific lightning and thunder above, and violent shocks of earthquakes underneath. \u00a0(174)<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
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\u00a0 \u00a0 And behold, the rocks were rent in twain; they were broken up upon the face of the whole earth, insomuch that they were\u00a0found in broken fragments, and in seams and in cracks, upon all the face of the land. \u00a0(3 Nephi 8:18) \u00a0 We\u2019re nearing the end, but I\u2019m still working my way […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1341,8834,56,8841,8844,8529,8520,1356,1353,8526,8556,1350,4640,8838,1050,1369,8837,8831,1347,3838,8825,8828,3178,8531,8822],"class_list":["post-83445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-3-nephi","tag-bart","tag-book-of-mormon","tag-burial","tag-buried","tag-cataclysm","tag-catastrophe","tag-christ","tag-destruction","tag-devastation","tag-drought","tag-earthquake","tag-fire","tag-flood","tag-geology","tag-jesus","tag-kowallis","tag-lightning","tag-seismology","tag-storm","tag-tempest","tag-thunder","tag-volcanism","tag-volcano","tag-whirlwind"],"yoast_head":"\n
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