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    The Lure of Life on Lava
    Tomas Alex Tizon, Los Angeles Times, March 8, 2005:
    Lava burying entire subdivisions, said U.S. Geological Survey volcanologist Peter Cervelli, has become a "significant worry."

    "It's not our job to tell people where to live," said Cervelli, who for years was based in Hawaii. He recently transferred to the Alaska Volcano Observatory in Anchorage. "We make recommendations. That's not to say privately we don't go, 'What are those people thinking?' They're building on lava flows less than 100 years old. A slope like that is an active slope."
    Is $15,000 an acre that cheap? I suppose if you could find a way to live in a sturdy, steel-framed tent, the cost-risk ratio would be relatively attractive... but I don't think I'd build a whole house for hundreds of thousands of dollars knowing that it could be swallowed by Pele if she happens to have a bad week.

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    Re: The Lure of Life on Lava

    Now that's a hot real estate market.

    Ba-dump-ching!

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