VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS: POTENTIAL MEGA-DISASTERS IN SLOW MOTION Based on Evaluations by the Smithsonian Institution Stimulated by the Current Ongoing Eruptions.

Slides:

Advertisements

Similar presentations

Volcanism Volcanic Features Location and Types of Volcanic Activity

Advertisements

Volcanoes and their effects on Earth

It is 500,000 years old and it has an elevation of kilometres. It has the longest history of eruption. It’s about 35,000 years and it is still.

DANGEROUS VOLCANOES IN THE WORLD A RE-ERUPTION OF 11 OF THE 1,500 ACTIVE VOLCANOES IS LIKELY TO BE VERY DEVASTATING, LOCALLY, REGIONALLY, AND GLOBALLY.

CHILE’S VOLCANO PUYEHUE ERUPTS WITH A MASSIVE ASH CLOUD AND SPECTACULAR LIGHTNING JUNE 4, 2011 Walter Hays, Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction, University.

Nature’s Disasters: Volcanoes and Earthquakes. Volcanoes A volcano is an opening in a planet's crust, which allows hot magma, ash, rock and gases to.

Mount Mazama/Crater Lake, Oregon  Over 6,000 years ago Mount Mazama (posthumously named) erupted. Before the explosion the mountain was 12,000 feet high;

TSUNAMI BY :KARISSA SHAMAH +

Volcanoes By: Kylie Edens and Jordyn Friel. What are shield volcanoes? Shield volcanoes look like dome-shaped mountains. The mountain is formed when lava.

Volcanoes Animation of a volcano.

WILDFIRES RAGE OUT OF CONTROL IN WEST TEXAS AND TEXAS PANHAMDLE DROUGHT AND WIND EXACERBATE WILDFIRES, WHICH SCORCH 80, ,000 ACRES MARCH 12 - APRIL.

1 Volcanoes. 2 Different Volcanic Settings 3 Types of Eruptions Eruptions will generally be of two types: Quiet (Rift) eruptions Explosive (Subduction)

Three different types of volcanoes exist; Volcano An opening in Earth’s crust through which igneous matter (lava, ash, cinder, and gases) are erupted.

Mount Merapi An Active Volcano in Indonesia. By Frankie O’Donnell & Gary Cannell.

Catastrophic Events Henry Millican Josh Bryant help!

ONE OF NATURE’S FACES. Hurricane Earthquake Tornado Volcano Tsunami Flood Drought Hail Forest fire Severe frost Snow storm Thunderstorm.

Introduction Video Clip

And other Plinian Eruptions

NOTABLE HISTORIC AND FUTURE THREATENING EVENTS ALONG THE PACIFIC RING OF FIRE As of April 21, 2012 Walter Hays, Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction,

SHINMOEDAKE ERUPTS IN JAPAN eruption began at 7:30 AM Although called a minor eruption, it was the largest eruption since 1959 JANUARY 26-31, 2011 Walter.

Disclaimer This presentation may contain copyrighted material. PLEASE DO NOT DISTRIBUTE.

SURFACE FEATURES OF THE EARTH

Homework 9 Tectonic Hazards Mt Etna Volcano (Italy) Montserrat Volcano Haiti Earthquake Christchurch Earthquake (New Zealand) Atmosperic Hazards Hurricane.

Volcanoes. What is it?? It is... an opening, or rupture, in the Earth's surface or crust, which allows hot melted rock, volcanic ash and gases to escape.

8th grade Physical Science

1 Volcanoes Volcano Cam. 2 Different Volcanic Settings.

Terrific heat, chocking ash, and stream of molten lava all occur when a volcano erupts. Have you watched the movie Dante’s Peak? Imagine what they went.

Mount Tambora The Year Without Summer

Nevado Del Ruiz, Colombia Volcan Del Fuego,Colima,Mexico Nyiragongo, Zaire/Congo, Africa.

Volcanoes BY: Kristina Scapin Amy Schneider Hillary Barter.

Unit 20 Living with Volcanoes in Indonesia

Lesson 27 What are volcanoes?.

A volcano is a mountain where hot gases and magma break through the Earths surface. This process is called a volcanic eruption. Volcanoes have been important.

Volcanoes A volcano is an opening in the Earth’s crust through which molten rock, rock fragments, and hot gases erupt.

By: Garath Curwen and Kendra Higgins.

BY Jeremy X Jalbeak and Terry. Mount Etna is the biggest volcano in Italy It is also the volcano with the longest record of continuously eruptions. It.

 Fissure eruptions  Shield volcanoes  Cinder cone volcanoes  Composite volcanoes ( andesite volcanoes)

Simone Gramstad.  The volcano is 1277 meters 4190 feet tall  Base: 47 kilometers (30 miles)  Has erupted more then 50 times after the large eruption.

MOUNT ETNA ERUPTS AGAIN February 19, 2013 Walter Hays, Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction, Vienna, Virginia, USA.

Volcanoes of the Ancient World

SES 05 EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE

Active Volcanoes of the World. Nyamuragira ( Congo )

LIVING WITH MOUNT MERAPI, INDONESIA APRIL- MAY 2006.

Volcanoes Kevan and Alexiz Per.1 5/16/12.

PLOSKY TOLBACHIK VOLCANO IN KAMCHATKA ERUPTS AFTER 40 YEARS January 6, 2013 Walter Hays, Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction, Vienna, Virginia, USA.

ERUPTION OF TWO VOLCANOES IN KAMCHATKA (RUSSIA) THREATENS PEOPLE AND AVIATION SAFETY OCTOBER 22-27, 2010 Walter Hays, Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction,

Location : Sicily, Italy Location : N, E Elevation : 10,991 feet Diameter of the base : 36 by 24 miles.

Volcanoes! By Mia Gittens. Introduction The word volcano comes from an island off Sicily called volcano that was originally named after Vulcan the Roman.

Eruption of Santa Maria Volcano in Guatemala in 1902

How big is mount Etna? Mount Etna is an active volcano on the east coast of Sicily, close to Messina and Catania. It is the largest volcano in Europe,

Volcanoes. There are three major kinds of volcanoes Although volcanoes are all made from hot magma reaching the surface of the Earth and erupting, there.

and May Dea Dea, what is a volcano? What is a volcano? Let’s check!

PIOTR SZMIGIEL 2K. A flood is an overflow of water that submerges land which is usually dry. The European Union defines a floods as a covering by water.

SCALE AND UNCERTAINTY OF MOUNT MERAPI’S ERUPTION CYCLE IS EXACERBATING HEALTH CARE NEEDS IN INDONESIA October 26 – November ?, 2010 Walter Hays, Global.

On the back, illustrate an example of each natural disaster

Volcanoes & Tsunamis.

MOUNT KARANGETANG ERUPTS IN INDONESIA

Earthquakes and Volcanoes

TWO OF MEXICO’S DANGEROUS VOLCANOES THREATENING TO ERUPT

Volcanoes and their effects on Earth

THE SECOND LARGEST ERUPTION OF THE 20TH CENTURY

Mount Merapi “Mountain of Fire” Java, Indonesia

Volcanism Volcanic Features Location and Types of Volcanic Activity

Volcanism Volcanic Features Location and Types of Volcanic Activity

The eruption of Mt. Tambora On the northern coast of Sumbawa island, Indonesia Occurred during April of 1815.

VOLCANO SINABUNG ON NORTH SUMATRA, INDONESIA ERUPTS November 3, 2013

South wales earthquake

Presentation transcript:

VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS: POTENTIAL MEGA-DISASTERS IN SLOW MOTION Based on Evaluations by the Smithsonian Institution Stimulated by the Current Ongoing Eruptions of Mount Merapi in Indonesia OCTOBER 25 - NOVEMBER ?, 2010 Walter Hays, Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction, University of North Carolina, USA

Mount Merapi’s current eruptions in 2010, which started on October 25 th, have caused a mega-disaster in slow motion with no end yet in sight

MOUNT MERAPI, INDONESIA (CREDIT: JESSE ALLEN)

The wind blows the ash from Mount Merapi westward, where it rains down from the sky, scorching the earth, and crushing the vegetation (e.g., tropical fruit trees such as mangosteens, rambutans and snake fruit grown by local farmers), …

---causing healthcare problems (e.g., smoke inhalation, burns, amputations, skin problems, cuts, other injuries) for millions,….

… destroying habitats and livelihoods, disrupting air traffic and business as usual, displacing over 250,000 people, and killing over 218 people.

At present, November 13 th 2010, life for people living near Mount Merapi and in evacuation camps is dangerous and difficult, and it could continue that way for a long time..

Subandriyo, a government vulcanologist in Yogyakarta, estimates that Mount Merapi, Indonesia's youngest volcano, has disgorged approximately 4.6 billion cubic feet of rocks, sand, dust and gas between October 25 th and November 13 th.

FIVE OTHER DANGEROUS VOLCANOES CAPABLE OF CAUSING SLOW-MOTION DISASTERS SANGAY, ECUADOR STROMBOLI, ITALY MT. ETNA, ITALY MOUNT YASUR, VANUATU SANTA MARIA, GUATEMALA

SANGAY, ECUADOR

Sangay’s steep-sided volcanic cone, which reaches a height of 17,158 feet (5,230 meters), has been characterized by: 1) a historical eruption in 1628, 2) more or less continuous eruptions from 1728 until 1916, and 3) continuous eruptions again from 1934 to the present.

STROMBOLI, ITALY

The island of Stromboli, off the west coast of southern Italy and the north coast of Sicily, is the tip of a massive underwater volcano that has been erupting nearly continuously in a “Strombolian” explosive mode for over 2,000 years.

MT. ETNA, ITALY

Mount Etna, currently around 10,958 feet (3,340 meters) in height and the largest active volcano in Europe, has erupted around 200 times, including a huge eruption in 1969 and another eruption in 2001 that generated lava flows that almost reached Nicolosi

MOUNT YASUR, VANUATU

Mount Yasur, an active volcano on Tanna Island and a part of the archipelago nation of Vanuatu in the South Pacific, has been erupting nearly continuously for over a century with strombolian- type eruptionsk, often occurring several times an hour.

SANTA MARIA, GUATEMALA

Santa Maria, a 12,375-foot (3,772- meter) tall stratovolcano, had a catastrophic eruption in 1902, one of the largest eruptions of the 20th century, that caused severe damage throughout southwestern Guatemala