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Miguel Hahn and Jan-Christoph Hartung - Beauty and the Beast

Miguel Hahn and Jan-Christoph Hartung - Beauty and the Beast

Miguel Hahn and Jan-Christoph Hartung - Beauty and the Beast

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    Volcanologist Noer Cholik and a colleague study Merapi, one of the country's most active volcanoes.
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    An emergency switch in a Bali hotel. Many hotels advertise themselves as being "tsunami ready."
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    Noer Cholik monitors seismic activity at the Vulcanology Center in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
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    Chinese tourists snap a selfie in Nusa Dua, Bali near an escape route sign.
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    A cell phone recovered from the ashes of the 2010 eruption of Mount Merapi. At least 200 people died and some 390,000 were evacuated.
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    This man is shaman in the village of Banaran Keningar and claims to communicate with the Merapi volcano.
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    This man was injured in an earthquake in Central Java, Indonesia in 2006. He has been in a wheelchair ever since and drives to work in a scooter.
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    A souvenir of the Merapi volcano.
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    A man demonstrates how his grandfather wrapped himself in a bamboo cover to survive a Merapi eruption in 1930.
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    A worker mines sulfur in the Ijen crater in in East Java.
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    A tsunami alarm tower looms in the distance on Bali.
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    A tsunami drill at a school in the village of Jambaran, Bali. Students play injured or dead as others rescue them.
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    An earthquake-proof house in a "Teletubby village," built after an earthquake destroyed an older village nearby on Java.
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