Mount Pinatubo
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- Created on: 20-05-19 10:48
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- Mount Pinatubo
- FACTS
- 700 died
- 1991 Philippines
- 200,000 homeless
- Buildings destroyed
- Crops destroyed
- Destructive PB
- Composite volcano
- IMPACTS
- Economic
- Airports closed
- Houses & bridges destroyed
- 650,000 lost thier job
- $700m in damage
- $93m cost of caring for refugees
- Environmental
- Lahars cause river bank erosion
- Global cooling of 0.5 degrees by ash in atmopshere
- Social
- 700 died
- 58,000 evacuated
- Long Term
- Lava & ash decreased amount of sunlight reaching the earth's surface
- Million tonnes of sulfur dioxide decreased world temp for 2 years
- Rice paddies and sugar cane fields burried by lahars
- Short Term
- Electricity & phone links cut off
- Ash buried large amounts of land & buildings collapsed
- Water contamination
- Sulfur dioxide into atmosphere
- Roads destroyed
- Destruction of habitats
- Economic
- RESPONSES
- Short Term
- Prediction saved 60,000 lived due to evacuation schemes
- Foreign aid
- NGO sent millions in financial aid
- Long Term
- More monitoring systems built
- Better medical supplies
- 7 years after, animals started to migrate back
- Short Term
- FACTS
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