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The latest eruption, which stated on December 23, remains confined to Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, posing no immediate threat to nearby communities.

Millions of people around the world live near one of the roughly 1,500 active volcanoes on Earth—from Italy’s Campi Flegrei to Indonesia’s Merapi to the United States’ Mount Rainier.

Violent eruptions have started up again in Hawaii, with fountains of lava shooting hundreds of feet into the air and toxic gas belching from the crater.