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'Rivers of fire': an eruption of Hawaii's Mauna Loa Volcano

United States, 1985
film

Examines the twenty two day eruption of Mauna Loa, the world’s largest volcano which started on 25 March 1984. Explains the Hawaiian volcanoes with spec..

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