change‚ socioeconomic effects‚ impacts within a community‚ difference in rich and poor‚ urban and rural‚ ability to cope with a disaster‚ willingness of people to aid 3. Physical issues- type of plate boundary‚ frequency of events 4. Case studies: Volcanos: Nyiragongo‚ Mount Etna; Seismicity: Japan‚ Haiti A hazard is a physical or man-made event which adversely affects human life‚ business‚ and events. Volcanic hazards may include lava‚ pyroclastic flows and volcanic bombs whereas seismic hazards may
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below the sea surface and 3‚500 meters above the ocean floor. 17. This new island is forming because the Pacific Plate is moving in a northwest direction‚ and as it moves toward the “hot spot”‚ new volcanoes will form‚ which makes Loihi the “new” volcano. 18. In Hawaiian‚ Loihi means long‚ which also describes the shape of this new island being long. It has two curving rift zones in both the north and the south summit‚ and has a caldera that is about 3.7 kilometers long. We know what the new island
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Volcanic Landforms Volcano is essentially a fissure or vent (opening) which serves as an outlet for hot magma from beneath the Earth’s crust. The hot liquid magma coming out in the form of lava (most commonly molten basalt) is potential of shaping different landforms on earth crust. The most common landforms that are results of volcanic activity include cones‚ craters‚ calderas‚ domes etc. This article gives a description of these volcanic landforms. SHIELD VOLCANOES- These are characterised
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`For any human being‚ no other word encapsulates as much horror‚ misery‚ helplessness and doom as the term “Natural Disaster”. A natural disaster is any event of force of nature that is caused by environmental factors that has catastrophic consequences. Every year they not only decimate thousands of people and their properties but end entire blood lines. These calamities wreak havoc in the part of the world it chooses to act upon. Over the centuries various types of natural disasters or “Acts of
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The causes of tectonic plate movement and how different processes have shaped New Zealand’s landforms occur nearly every single day. In fact one of these processes is happening right now‚ somewhere on the Earth. The 3 major processes are folding‚ faulting and volcanism. While these take place‚ another “force” is also acting‚ changing the shape of our continents‚ and Earth itself‚ the tectonic plate movement. Earth’s outer shell‚ long thought to be a continuous‚ unbroken‚ crust is actually a fluid
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I aroused with a thumping headache‚ hoping my situation was just a deplorable dream. I was out of fortuity; I was stuck in the middle of the forest with Maple‚ the trail horse. I took a deep breath‚ stood up and held my phone to the empyrean. No bars‚ how typical I mentally conceived. I ambulated around in circles for a couple of minutes endeavoring to cerebrate of an orchestration. I took a visual examination of Maple eating wild grass‚ all of the sudden I decided that I was going to make the best
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1) Yesterday‚ I decided to get on a plane and take a trip. I found myself in a wonderful place. One of the most amazing things I saw was a huge white building that looks like a palace -- but it’s really a tomb for a dead woman! Seems when the man’s wife died‚ he was so upset he wanted to build her the most beautiful tomb in the world. The architect who designed it was "rewarded" by having his eyes pulled out! (Some people say his hands were crushed too.) Whatever really happened‚ it was done so the
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human‚ animal‚ and plant life but the amount that we have on earth is negatively affecting our climate. The earth hasn’t held this much carbon for 420‚000 years. Another natural effect of global climate change is through volcanic eruptions. When a volcano erupts it releases aerosols‚ which are a cooling agent for earth. But the volcanoes also release carbon dioxide a green house gas. This may seem like it’s not a problem because the cooling will keep
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eruptive activity. (http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/volcanoes/st_helens/st_helens_geo_hist_101.html) Mt. Saint Helens started to show signs of life after March 16‚ 1980. It began with small earthquakes. On March 27‚ after hundreds of small earthquakes the volcano produced it first eruption in over 100 years. Steam explosions made a 60-70 m wide crater through the volcano’s summit ice cap.
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The Tambora Volcano occurred in Europe in 1815 and did not end until four months later. In fact it spewed so much gases and rock into the air that‚ by the time it stopped erupting‚ it had shrunk by 4‚200 feet. To date‚ Mount Tambora has sent more particles into atmosphere than any other volcano in recorded history. . Mount Tambora sits on island of Indonesia .in 1815‚ perhaps 50‚000 people lived on Sambaw ‚ a beautiful land of rushing streams gentle hills‚ and thick jungles. Looming over the northern
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