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Researchers analyzing remains of Inca children sacrificed atop high-altitude volcanoes found evidence that the children had consumed coca leaves and alcoholic beverages before death. The Inca reportedly believed these child victims would serve as intermediaries between their people and the gods.
Hawaii Volcanoes National Park contains an 8-mile fissure known as the Great Crack, located in Kilauea's southwest rift zone, which measures up to 50 feet wide and 66 feet deep. A writer attempting to hike to the site found that multiple park employees and rangers had never visited it themselves, with no official trail leading there and little documentation available.
Researchers studying the January 2022 Hunga volcano eruption in Tonga found that a roughly four-kilometer-wide caldera sank by about a kilometer during the event, based on before-and-after seafloor mapping. The team concludes this swift collapse likely intensified the powerful tsunami that followed the eruption.