How Can People And Places Be Protected From The Imapct Of Volcanoes

What can be done to reduce the impacts of Volcanoes?

Prediction

Technological advances are making it easier to predict volcanic eruptions.

• Satellites monitor the temperature and shape of active volcanoes.

• Sensors measure levels of sulphur dioxide and carbon dioxide gas

• Seismometers record earthquakes as magma rises to fill the volcano

• Tilt meters record any change in the shape of the volcano

• Volcanoes can be studied similar to an organ…