Volcano/tsunami
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- volcano/ tsunami
- mount Pinatubo 1991
- facts
- located in pacific ring of fire
- 1460m high
- dormant for 600 years
- 15/16 th June
- 350 killed by earthquakes
- 200,000 homeless
- 6 deaths in first few days
- the explosion
- rock and ash scattered over 100km
- caused ground tremors of 4.5 richter scale
- on the island Luzon
- combined with typhone
- left 600,000 homeless
- electricity cut off for three weeks
- water become contaminated
- mudslides cover 50,000ha of cropland
- early warning system
- 200,000 were evacuated
- 14,500 US service personel evacuatted from air base to naval base out of danger
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- Iceland
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- January 1973
- island of Heimaey
- the explosion
- nearly all 5300 residents of the island were evacuated
- large lava flows threatened fishing port and town
- for nearl 6 months sea water was sprayed to cool and divert the flows away from town
- noted as first successful attempt to manage a large erruption
- the flows added more land to island
- 30km of pipes were used
- 43 pumps
- overall 6 million cubic metres of water had been pumped onto flow
- 43 pumps
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- indonesia
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- 26/12/04
- giant earthquake by sinking of eaurasian plate
- earthquake reached 9.0 on richter scale
- the events
- main impact on sumatra where 70% of coastal inhabitants died
- by march 2005
- 111,000 had died in indonesia
- 127,000 missing
- 800,000 homeless
- over 100 aid organisers were helping
- indonesian reconstruction cost is £2.4 bil
- thailand saw 6000 people were killed, 2400 from other countries
- sri lanka saw 31,000 killed
- salf water affected fresh water
- africa was effected iin somalia
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- mount Pinatubo 1991
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