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Mount Tongariro

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New Zealand's Mount Tongariro erupts

A volcano has erupted on New Zealand's North Island, sending a column of ash high into the atmosphere.
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RE: Taupo volcano

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Latitude: -38.78491, Longitude: 175.91748

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According to GNS, the Taupo volcano first began erupting about 300,000 years ago and it is a given that it will do so again one day. A repeat eruption of the size of either the Oruanui or Taupo eruptions would "devastate most of the North Island", according to GNS.
Taupo is part of a belt of active volcanoes known as the Taupo Volcanic Zone that runs from Ruapehu northeast to White Island and on towards the Kermadec Islands.
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Lake Taupo, in the centre of New Zealands North Island is not recognised as such by most people, but it is actually the Caldera of a large rhyolitic volcano. This huge volcano has produced two of the worlds most violent eruptions in geologically recent times.
The Taupo Volcano forms part of the Taupo Volcanic Zone, a region of volcanic activity that extends from Ruapehu in the South, through the Taupo and Rotorua regions, to White Island, in the Bay of Plenty.
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