Allison Introduction My report is on Mt. Saint Helens. Before 1980‚ symmetrical Mt. Saint Helens was known as “Fujiyama of America.” (http://mountsthelens.com/history-1.html) Mt. Saint Helens erupted on May 18‚ 1980. It was one of the most deadly eruptions in America. Mt. Saint Helens height used to be 9‚677 ft making it the 5th highest peak in Washington. It’s height was reduced to 1‚300 ft after it exploded in 1980. Mt. Saint Helens is almost 53 km west of Mt. Adams and approximately 80 km Northeast
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Volcanoes affect people in many ways‚ some are good‚ some are not. Some of the bad ways are that houses‚ buildings‚ roads‚ and fields can get covered with ash. As long as you can get the ash off (especially if it is wet)‚ your house may not collapse‚ but often the people leave because of the ash and are not around to continually clean off their roofs. If the ashfall is really heavy it can make it impossible to breathe. Lava flows are almost always too slow to run over people‚ but they can certainly
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Mt. Nyiragongo is a very interesting and explosive volcano‚ even though it isn’t especially world renown. It is on the continent of Africa‚ near the Uganda and Rwanda border. Though it is near those borders‚ the volcano is in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The latitude and longitude of Mt. Nyiragongo is 1.5167° S‚ 29.2500° E. Those are the introductory facts to exploring Mt. Nyiragongo; it is very much more than that though. Mt. Nyiragongo is a stratovolcano‚ a composite-cone volcano. It
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Volcanoes and Earthquakes test Bew c. 1. Where do earthquakes occur? Earthquakes occur at breaks in the earth’s crust called the fault lines. 2. What causes Earthquakes? Tectonic plates pushing‚ pulling‚ slipping past each other increasing the stress and causes elastic rebound to happen. During elastic rebound‚ energy is released and some travel as seismic waves‚ which cause an earthquake. 3. How do earthquake waves travel and what are the various types of waves? Body waves
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How Mt. St. Helens eruption affected Washington State’s Economy On Sunday‚ May 18‚ 1980‚ at 8:32am‚ Mt. St. Helen’s erupted. Most people don’t realize how the eruption affected our economy. It affected Washington’s forestry / forest production‚ trade‚ transportation‚ topography‚ fisheries‚ and wildlife. Our Economy lost millions of dollars. Let’s see how it affected our economy. First‚ let’s start with forestry/forest production. This affected companies which had been logging. The companies
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DO VOLCANOES HAVE A DESTRUCTIVE POWER AS WELL AS POTENTIAL BENEFIT Volcanoes are usually depicted as towering mountains missing a chunk out of the top from which steam‚ ash and lava spew forth. In reality‚ a volcano is any spot on the surface of the Earth where lava flows. Magma finds its way upwards along fissures or cracks in the planet ’s crust and bursts out onto the surface‚ resulting in a volcano. Magma that flows out of a volcano is called lava. If it comes out of the volcano in an explosive
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It will also discuss how the climate was affected by the eruption and also its influence on the hydrological cycle of the earth. Mount Pinatubo is one of a chain of composite volcanoes (see Figure 2) that constitute the Luzon volcanic arc (Wolfe‚ E. & Hoblitt‚ R.‚ 1999). Composite volcanoes‚ also called Strato-Volcanoes‚ are formed by alternating layers of lava and rock fragments (Oracle Thinkquest‚ 2011). The arc parallels the west coast of Luzon and reflects eastward-dipping subduction along
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Hekla‚ Katla‚ and Laki are located in the south of Iceland. All of them have a distinct personality. Iceland has so many threating volcanoes as a result of its unique location. Iceland lies in the North Atlantic where two of the earth crustal plates are pulled apart. Below Iceland is a hot spot‚ where Molten material rises to Earth’s surface forming active volcanoes. Laki is well known to be a fissure volcano meaning that it erupts in a linear vent system. Laki does not erupt from a single crater
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Mt Etna Volcano Research Basic Information of the Volcano The Location and Height of Mt Etna Mt Etna is Europe’s tallest and active volcano. It is 3340 m over the city of Catania which is located on the east coast of Sicily. More than 25% of Sicily people live on the slopes of Mt Etna‚ agriculture and tourism are the major sources of income on this island. How it was formed‚ the Tectonic Plates Involved and What Type of Volcano is it? Mt Etna is a stratovolcano ( another name is a composite cone)
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Facing Mt. Kenya Jomo Kenyatta someone who came from a Gikuyu tribe but he eventually adapted to the new changing Africa. Kenyatta actually was the first President and he also adapted to the Western influences by wearing a suit and driving in Cadalacs. But even though he did very well in adapting he was still very proud of his heritage and the old ways of his people. There even seems to be a tone in his writing of nostalgia‚ and a little bit of bitterness to the people who came in to start the
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