mt etna a2
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- HIC Volcano Mt Etna
- 12 July 2001
- Destructive Plate Boundary - Eurasian plate and African plate
- Strombolian style eruption
- Frequent explosive eruptions
- Steam and Tephra
- Every 1.7 years
- good soil fertility
- Inhabitants have experience of managing eruptions
- Knew what to do - rebuilt housing using wreckage
- Frequent explosive eruptions
- 2 continental plates
- basaltic lava
- not explosive low in silca not very viscous
- composite volcano
- basaltic lava
- Strombolian style eruption
- social effects
- 77 dead
- health risks, lava went 400m into air
- destruction of homes
- loss of jobs
- Environmental effects
- asphyxiation of animals and plants
- destruction of agriculture
- habitat destruction
- volcanic ash
- gas plumes
- Economic Effects
- catanina airport forced to shut
- agricultural land covered in ash
- reduced tourism
- government offered tax breaks for villagers affected
- Monitoring
- gases and emissions tests
- volume of sulphur dioxide in gas estimates volume of magma
- INGV monitored it for more than 20 years
- Management
- 2002 - dams of soil built to divert lava
- explosives used to divert lava away
- History
- 25% of Sicilian population live on the slopes
- very well monitored
- Destructive Plate Boundary - Eurasian plate and African plate
- Strombolian style eruption
- Frequent explosive eruptions
- Steam and Tephra
- Every 1.7 years
- good soil fertility
- Inhabitants have experience of managing eruptions
- Knew what to do - rebuilt housing using wreckage
- Frequent explosive eruptions
- 2 continental plates
- basaltic lava
- not explosive low in silca not very viscous
- composite volcano
- basaltic lava
- Strombolian style eruption
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