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What typically kills someone during a volcano eruption if they don't come into contact with lava?

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Dr. Heidi Fowler answered

Specializes in Psychiatry

Volcano: 1, Suffocated by poisonous gases 2. Being buried by lahars (fast-flowing mud, ash & rock). 3. Pyroclastic flows of superheated gas. 4. ash clouds

Answered 5/19/2017

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