This page will explore these internal forces.
Volcanology is the science dealing with the study of volcanoes.
Hopefully, this science will lead to more accurate prediction of volcanic eruptions and a subsequent reduction in the loss of life. I would like to dedicate this WEB page to the vulcanologists Maurice and Katia Krafft who lost thier lives in 1991 while studying a volcanic eruption in Japan. This page contains links to WEB pages which help further your understanding of this phenonoma. There is another major fault system, the New Madrid Fault Line, which is as far north as the juncture of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers and as far south as eastern Arkansas. Between December of 1811 and the Spring of 1812, a series of violent earthquakes struck the New Madrid area.