When pressure builds up, or tectonic plates shift, or where the crust is thin, volcanoes can erupt. There are 1,511 known volcanoes, 500 of which are active. Every now and then, a new one forms, as happened in 1943 in Paricutin, Mexico.
The average life expectancy for Japanese men is 80.5 years of age, while for women, life expectancy was calculated at 86.83 years of age, Fuji TV reported Friday.
Life expectancies at age 50 for women in the United States, Denmark, and the Netherlands were on par with other countries (and led Japan by several years) in 1950, yet these three countries were at the bottom by 2007.