Chaiten Impacts
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- Created on: 08-05-16 15:25
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- Chaiten Impacts
- Economic
- Regional airports were closed due to ash
- Airports up to 2,300km from the volcano were forced to close or cancel flights
- Damage to aircraft was minimal
- Several hundred domestic flights in Argentina and Chile were cancelled
- Farm animals were killed by ash
- Crops and harvests were destroyed by pyroclastic lava
- Marine facilities and harbour destroyed
- Regional airports were closed due to ash
- Environmental
- Winds carried ash plume east, over Andes mountains, into Argentina and over the Atlantic
- Lahars
- Destroyed roads and made access difficult
- 90% of the town was inundated with Lahars
- Filled the river bed causing river banks to overflow
- Formed wide sediment delta to be formed at mouth of river
- 90% of Chaiten town was flooded
- Ash falls up to 15cm deep had blocked rivers and contaminated groundwater supplies.
- Ash into drainage feeding into the Chaiten river - affected many water systems and water supplies.
- Social
- Total of around 10,000 people were evacuated from the area around Chaiten
- 4,200 people who lived in Chaiten were evacuated by boat
- Affected community spirit and damaged theor homes and possessions
- Breathing difficulties
- 1 death - stress related
- Total of around 10,000 people were evacuated from the area around Chaiten
- Economic
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