Volcanos

Volcanos

1. What is a volcano?

   • A mountain or hill having a crater or vent through which lava, rock fragments, hot vapor, and gas are or have been..

2. Which boundaries are they found?

   • Constructive
   • Destructive

3. What to do when describing pattern & location

   • Direction
   • Scale
   • Plate Names

4. Predict / Prepare / Respond

   • Predict
     • Gas Emissions
     • Thermal Monitoring
     • Ground Deformation
     • Satellites
   • Respond
     • Evacuate
     • Provide shelter for homeless people
     • Bombs and Water
   • Prepare
     • Hazard Mapping
     • Evacuation Plans
     • Encourage people to keep emergency aid
     • Diversion channels
     • Educate
     • Exclusions zones
     • Sloping roofs

5. Effects

   • Hazards
     • Ash Fall
     • Pyroclastic Flow
     • Volcanic gases
     • Lava Flows
     • Tephra
     • Lahar & Landsllide
   • Primary
     • Deaths / Injury / Damage to buildings / Crops & livestock destroyed / Roofs collapsing / Damage to Infrastructue
   • Secondary
     • Death / Homelessness / Unemployment / Cost of damage / Tourism / Crop failure (years )

6. Why do people live near hazards?

   • Farming
   • Beauty
   • Energy
   • Tourism
   • Precious Stone