CASE STUDIES; VOLCANOES Flashcards
date of mount Nyiragongo DRC
January 2002
DRC economic status
LIC, currently in an economic recession , corrupt government
mount Nyira experienced
Tremors since march 2001
sea floor spreading had occurred
on the kivu rift allowing lava to flow out the crater
Impacts of mount Nyiragongo
-12,500 homes destroyed
-30.000 displaced
-250 killed
Responses to the mount Nyiragonga volcano
-Authorities built temporary shelters in 6 camps to house displaced people and families
-money was donated to rebuild homes
-destroyed 15% of goma city
cost of mount nyiragongo volcano
$21.6 million
mount nyira occurred
at the constructive plate boundary,divergent movement
Date of phillppeans volcanoe
July 1991
Causes of Phillppeans volcano
magma rising towards the earth triggered thousands of small earthquakes
Phillpeans volcano: data
- 300,000 evacuation
– 722 people killed
Responses of the phillppeans volcanoe
- military evacuation
-shelter set up
-total of 2.43 million raised by european countries such as denmark
reasons for the extent
- lahars
-pyroclastic flows
-20 million tons of sulfur dioxide
-huge avalanches
-philippeans is and archipeligo
Date of iceland E15 volcanoe
May 2010
Causes of Iceland E15 Volcano
- composite volcano
- iceland lies on a mid ocean ridge
- contructive plate boundary
