Impact on Earthquakes and Volcanoes
- Created by: Eloise Smith
- Created on: 14-03-13 18:26
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- Impact on Earthquakes and Volcanoes
- Human
- Earthquakes
- Hardly Noticed
- Coal Mining can trigger earthquakes
- Reservoir Construction
- Oil and gas production
- Noticed when magnitude is high enough that people suffer
- Volcanoes
- Fast-moving lava can kill people
- Falling ash can make it hard for people to breathe
- Can die from famine
- Can die from fires
- Can die from earthquakes which can be related to volcanoes
- Can lose possesions
- Can destroy houses
- Can destroy roads
- Can destroy fields
- Earthquakes
- Physical
- Earhquakes
- Sudden release of energy in the earth's crust that creates seismic waves
- Three types of fault that may cause an earthquake
- Normal
- Reverse (thrust)
- Strike Slip
- Volcanoes
- Can cause change in weather like rain, thunder and lightening
- Effect the climate, making the world cooler
- Inside earth's core there is red hot liquid called magma.
- Happens when magma rises to surface of earth
- This causes bubbles of gas to appear in it
- Causes pressure to build up in the mountain, and it eventually explodes.
- Earhquakes
- Human
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