PARIS, France: A subterranean “highway from hell” enables some volcanoes to erupt at super-speed, a discovery that also throws up options for predicting the peril, according to a study published in Nature on Wednesday.

Volcanoes disgorge molten rock generated within the mantle, the layer sandwiched between Earth’s crust and fiery core.

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