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How do volcanoes affect mankind?

Lahars

Some volcanoes have unstable slopes, and thus cause landslides when they erupt. Unfortunately the heat from the volcano can cause the landslides to be hot rivers of mud, especially if snow-covered slopes are melting from volcanic activity. In some eruptions, the near-boiling mudslides (lahars) have rolled through several unfortunate towns in their path.

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