In the past thousand years,volcanoes have claimed more than 300,000 lives. Volcanology is ayoung and dangerous science that helps us against the power of the Earth itself.We live on a fiery planet. Nearly 2000 miles beneath our feet, the Earth’s inner core reachestemperatures of 12,000 degrees Fahrenheit. Molten rock or magma, rises to the earth’s surface. Acold, rigid crust fractured into some twenty plates. When magma breaks through crust it becomes In the past thousand thousand years,volcanoes have claimed more than 300,000 lives. Volcanology is ayoung and dangerous science that the usd the power of the Earth itself.We live on a fiery planet. Nearly 2000 miles below our feet, the Earth’s inner core revealtemperatures Of 12,000 degrees Fahrenheit. Molten rock or magma, rises to the earth’s surface. Acold, rigid crust fractured into some twenty plates. When magma breaks through crust it becomes