VOLCANO
- Created by: amycc
- Created on: 05-02-17 08:26
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- Mount Kilauea
- In Hawaii
- RICH COUNTRY
- Gentle Erruptions
- Quiet flow- very fluid Lava
- Can be observed safety at close range
- rarely endanger lives
- Not on a plate boundary
- On a hot spot-rising magma heated caused by radio active decay in the core of the earth
- In Hawaii
- Eyjafjallajokull
- ICELANDIC VOLCANO
- Lies on Mid Atlantic Ridge, a constructive plate margin
- Eurasian plate moving away from the north american plate
- PRIMARY EFFECTS
- Day turned to night due to ash blocking out sun
- Rescuers wore face masks to prevent them from choking on ash and gases
- Homes and roads damaged
- Crops damaged
- SECONDARY EFFECTS
- Sports match cancelled
- Flights cancelled
- Industries affected by lack of raw materials
- Local water supplies contaminated
- Sports match cancelled
- INTERNATIONAL IMPACTS
- ash spread towards Europe
- tourist business workers stranded
- Positive impacts
- tourism increased boost in economy in tourism sector
- soil fertile
- Responses
- immediate
- evacuation
- concrete blocks dropped to prevent lava flow
- explosion of mines
- italian government gave 5.6 million
- long term
- rebuild damage buildings
- scientist improve monitoring
- better planning of evacuation
- italian government gave tax breaks
- immediate
- NEVADO DEL RUIZ
- POOR COUNTRY
- Colombia in South America
- 1985 over 25,000 deaths
- Thousands killed by the lahars many injured and homelss
- no actions taken at warning signs
- map handed out showing hazardous areas but poorly distributed and no key
- Government had no plan of actions even after 3 days since the erruption
- incompetence of government
- no evacuation leading to high death toll
- short term responses were appalling
- long term responses focus on educating about warnings of volcano
- POOR COUNTRY
- MOUNT MERAPI
- South East Asia
- indonesia
- quite frequent
- high likelihood
- over 350,000 people were evacuated
- emergency shelters had ot be moved
- 273 people died
- 577 injured
- poor sanitation in evacuation centres
- 210evacuation centres set up
- longterm- houses rebuild evacuation centres stay up for longer, government support farmers who lost their crops
- South East Asia
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