A volcano, Sakurajima, erupted in Japan causing a great destruction to life and property. You are a reporter with the Delhi Times and you visited the spot and interviewed some people. Write a report for your newspaper covering entire facts of volcanic eruption including the destruction caused to human life and property.

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Such questions are made for enhancing the self-creative skills and should be tried answering on your on. However, you may consider the following paragraphs for your reference.

A volcano can be simply defined as a rupture or an opening on the crust of a planet like earth. This opening allows hot ash, molten rock and gases to blow off from the underground spaces. Volcanoes generally acquire the shape of a mountain. Volcanoes are usually found at places where tectonic plates get converged or diverged. But their existence at a particular place depends upon many environmental and geological factors. Volcanoes can also occur at a place because of hot spots or mantle plumes. Even hotspot volcanoes are very common at other planets of the solar system especially on moons and rock based planets.

Features of volcanoes 
Common features of volcanoes are lava, conical shaped mountain and release of poisonous gases from the crater situated at the summit of the volcanoes. These are most common features attained by almost all of the active volcanoes. But describing complete features of all the volcanoes is a very tedious thing because shape, attributes and behavior of different volcanoes depend upon different factors. For example, some volcanoes have a Steve peak formed as the lava dome, on the other hand, other possesses a crater at the summit. More exciting types of volcanoes are ice volcanoes (cryovolcanoes) and mud volcanoes, these volcanoes exist on moons of Saturn, Neptune and Jupiter.

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