A century ago‚ August 26‚ 1883‚ the island of Krakatau (Krakatoa) in Indonesia‚ the volcano exploded with devastating fury. The eruption was one of the most catastrophic natural disasters in history. The effects were experienced on a global scale. Fine ash from the eruption were carried by winds exceeding as far away as New York level. The explosion was heard over 3000 miles away. Volcanic dust exploded in the upper atmosphere‚ affecting incoming solar radiation and the Earth’s climate for several
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Roving the Wonder World of Aviation: A Cultural Change Agent and a Catalyst for Economic Growth Dr. Wali Mughni‚ Ph.D Abstract: This paper projects a bird’s eye view of Aviation at large; it also throws some light on Aviation in Pakistan and what the trends portend. Examining the holistic Aviation domain peculiarities‚ the analysis also reveals interesting idiosyncrasies and a few unique phenomena in the social‚ behavioral‚ cultural‚ environmental and financial aspects associated with aviation
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competition over scarce resources and ideological differences. The competition over scarce resources is a factor that leads to internal conflict. For example‚ Iceland and Britain were in conflict over fishing grounds in the 1970s. Iceland has few natural resources and depended on the fishing industry for its survival. Fishes are very important to Iceland because
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Assignment 3 P5 Trends and Factors Trends A trend is something that is reoccurring more and more often until it becomes a popular thing to do. The first trend I am going to explore is the greater flexibility of booking products. This has become possible due to alterations in the traditional chain of distribution. This relates to the trend of using the internet to book holidays as it is a lot through this in which people can book their products. The reason for this that the services such
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TUNGURAHUA 1. Name of volcano (include one or more pictures). - TUNGURAHUA o “Tungurahua”‚ Quichua tunguri (throat)‚ rahua (fire): "Throat of Fire". o Summit elevation: 5‚023m 2. Geographic location. Is an active stratovolcano located in the Cordillera Central of Ecuador. The volcano gives name to the province of Tungurahua. Tungurahua (5‚023 m) is located in the Cordillera Central of the Andes of central Ecuador‚ 140 km (87 miles) south of the capital Quito. Nearby notable
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Mount St. Helens. Mount St Helens is a volcano in a national park in Washington State‚ USA. It had been thought to be dormant for many years‚ until in 1980‚ when it suddenly burst to life. On March 20th‚ the huge volcano suddenly ‘woke up’ when there was a 4.1 Richter scale earthquake‚ and over the next 28 days‚ there were hundreds of other recordable earthquakes. On the 25th March‚ there were 22 significant earthquakes in just 8 hours. On March 27th‚ a huge earthquake ripped a massive crater
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Decade Volcano by the United Nations. From about 35‚000 to 15‚000 years ago‚ Etna experienced some highly explosive eruptions‚ generating large pyroclastic flows‚ which left extensive ignimbrite deposits. Ash from these eruptions has been found as far away as Rome‚ 800 km to the north. Eruptions of Mount Etna: 2001‚ 2002–2003‚ 2004–2005‚ 2008-2009 and 2011 I It’s been nearly 350 years since Mt. Etna blew its top in a major way. Until 2011‚ when Europe’s largest active volcano spewed
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Lucky Koritela #23 The Rock Cycle The rock cycle begins when Earth’s plates shift around leaving gaps in between them making a volcano. The magma under Earth’s crust come through the gap and spill out of the volcano. Then the magma (lava) cools down and hardens into igneous rock. As time passes the igneous rock weathers (using substances such as water) away into little chips. After getting smaller‚ erosion (using elements such as wind) transports the little rocks to different places. The deposition
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Mount St. Helen is a very active volcano classified as a stratovolcano‚ stratovolcano is basically a tall volcano built up of layer after layer of hard lava‚ tephra‚ pumice‚ and volcanic ash. Mount St. Helens location is in Skamania County in Washington‚ with coordinates of 46 12’00.17"N122 11’21.13"W. Mount St Helen is famous because of its catastrophic eruption on May eighteenth in nineteen eighty. The eruption measured a five on the volcanic explosivity index. This is an index created by Chris
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Wizard Island Wizard Island is undoubtedly a unique and interesting name for a volcano‚ in fact this volcano maybe better known as the island volcano in the middle of crater lake. Wizard Island is located in the west coast of crater lake‚ Oregon (United States) on the North American continent‚ it is located relatively on top of the seduction zone between the North American plate and the Juan De Fuca‚ a oceanic plate causing many major earth quakes in the area. Wizard Island’s has a latitude
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