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![Underwater volcanic eruption at NW Rota-1 in 2006](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Sulfurbubbles%2C_Brimstone_Pit_%28NW_Rota-1%29%2C_2006.jpg/160px-Sulfurbubbles%2C_Brimstone_Pit_%28NW_Rota-1%29%2C_2006.jpg)
Underwater volcanic eruption at NW Rota-1 in 2006
- ... that the first observed underwater explosive volcanic eruption (example pictured) occurred in 2004 at NW Rota-1?
- ... that only Ifugao consented to be part of an autonomous region in the Philippine Cordillera in a 1990 plebiscite?
- ... that after a fisherman crashed into a volcano, it was named after him?
- ... that the path of Typhoon Yancy wobbled in a trochoidal pattern as it approached Taiwan?
- ... that thunderstorms from Hurricane Dolores flooded the Moreno Valley, destroyed a bridge on Interstate 10, and killed a man by lightning strike?
- ... that the 1169 Sicily earthquake happened on the eve of the feast of St. Agatha and killed many who were gathered in the Catania Cathedral for the feast?
- ... that although a tsunami warning was issued 14 minutes after the 1983 Sea of Japan earthquake, the first wave had struck the coast two minutes earlier?