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MRB-2026-006714
Site of One of History's Largest Volcanic Eruptions
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El Salvador
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The Ilopango caldera, now filled by Lake Ilopango, produced the Tierra Blanca Joven eruption around 431 CE, one of the largest volcanic eruptions on Earth in the last 7,000 years.
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