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Population: 313,232,044 (more than 20,000 islands including Hawaii, Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands; 50 uninhabited islands in the Pacific Ocean )

Overseas Americans: 2,000,000

Languages: English (82%; official); Spanish (11%) Hawaiian (.001%, official in Hawaii); 90 Asian and Pacific Islander (2.7%); 140 Indo-European (3.8%);

over 100 Amerindian languages with more than 1,000 speakers each.

141,000,000 land line telephones

286,000,000 cellular phones

245,000,000 internet users

Of a total of 1500 known volcanoes, there are 20 mildly active volcanoes in the western continental United States. Mauna Loa and Kiluaea are active on the

island of Hawaii. Alaska alone has over 130 potentially active volcanoes and volcanic fields. Over 50 have been active in the last 250 years. Cook Inlet

volcanoes (Spurr, Redoubt, Iliamna, and Augustine) can have severe impacts, as these volcanoes are near to Anchorage, Alaska's largest population center.

Besides very seismically active areas in California, Alaska, Hawaii and Oregon there are hurricane threats to all three coasts most years.

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