Which risk increases when pressure builds inside volcanic domes?

💡 Explanation

An explosive eruption risk increases because overpressure enables volatile saturation, thus exceeding the tensile strength of the dome’s rock increasing the likelihood of cataclysmic explosion, rather than gradual degassing or power generation which reduces pressure.

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