Impacts of a Volcanic Eruption in Iceland
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- Created on: 12-05-21 10:53
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- Impacts of a Volcanic Eruption in Iceland
- Economic Impacts
- airlines lost £130 million / day
- tourism loss in Europe £5-6 million / day
- increase in number on eurostar
- extra 500,000 passengers
- stoppage of airfreight movement
- kenyan horticultural industry lost avg $3 million / day
- 3,000 tonnes of flowers left to rot due to closure of airspace
- Environmental Impacts
- ash deposited into atlantic
- plankton bloom
- no flights
- prevented 2.8million tonnes of CO2
- lava melted glacier
- big floods
- 700 people evacuated
- ash made soil fertile
- farmers housed livestock
- sheep population can triple if twins born
- emergency relief fund compensate farmers for damage
- geothermal energy
- heat from volcanoes
- 30% countries electricity
- 87% heating + hot water requirements
- grow tomatoes in greenhouse
- greenhouse powered by geothermal
- afforestation
- goal - 5% cover in next 5 years
- since 2015 - 1000 hectares planted
- ash deposited into atlantic
- Political Impacts
- civil aviation authority
- criticised by airlines for closing airspace too hastily + for too long
- engineers, volcanologists, modellers - more research on eruptions
- civil aviation authority
- Social Factors
- rural areas - goggles + facemasks to protect from thick ash
- 500 local catle farmers evacuated
- roads surrounding volcano shut
- ash contaminated local water supplies
- farmers near vocano didnt let livestock drink from contaminated sources
- high concentrations of fluoride + river water can have deadly effects on sheep
- Economic Impacts
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