Noobink: TIL a volcanologist died at an observation camp when Mount St. Helens exploded in 1980. He had agreed, for one day, to fill in for a colleague who was rotating out a third scientist based at the camp. The man rotated out died 11 years later during the Mount Unzen (Japan) eruption.

TIL a volcanologist died at an observation camp when Mount St. Helens exploded in 1980. He had agreed, for one day, to fill in for a colleague who was rotating out a third scientist based at the camp. The man rotated out died 11 years later during the Mount Unzen (Japan) eruption.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_A._Johnston

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