Multi-disciplinary analyses of Earth’s most destructive volcanic systems show that continuous monitoring and an understanding of each volcano’s quirks, rather than a single unified model, are key to generating accurate hazard assessments.
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Till, C.B., Pritchard, M., Miller, C. et al. Super-volcanic investigations. Nature Geosci 11, 227–229 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-018-0100-1
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