Mt Merapi Eruption (Case Study)

Mt Merapi Factfile:

Location - Indonesia

Date - 25th - 27th October 2010

Type of Volcano - Strato/Composite

Marapi is on a destructive plate boundary between the Indo-Australian plate and the Eurasian plate.

Primary Effects are effects that happen immediately as a result of the disaster (volcano) (e.g. destroying houses)

Secondary Effects are things that happen after the disaster (volcano) (e.g. homelessness)

Primary Social Effects:

• People displaced from homes
• 300 people killed

Secondary Social Effects:

• 100,000…