La Pama, september 2021

Question 1

what income

Answer 1

MIC

Question 2

plate boundary

Answer 2

Hot spot on the African plate

Question 3

what volcano was it

Answer 3

seamount - built up lava over last 4 million years to rise 2,400m above ocean surface

Question 4

what happened throughout eruption making it worse

Answer 4

the cone collapsed and vents opened

Question 5

how many earthquakes and what magnitude

Answer 5

22,000 earthquakes over a week
(max magnitude is 3.5)

Question 6

lava flow

Answer 6

1 km wide covering 650ha

Question 7

how high were the plumes of ash and gas

Answer 7

2-3 Km high

Question 8

deaths?

Answer 8

none

Question 9

impacts on infrastructure

Answer 9

-2,500 buildings destroyed
-closure of airspace

Question 10

what were the hazards and what did the hazards affect

Answer 10

Lava flow and ash falls affected banana plantations

Question 11

response

Answer 11

7,000 evacuated
70 million made available to support local farming and fishing industries
-emergency new access road to enable evacuation

Question 12

what VEI scale

Answer 12

2 for the first two months

Question 13

what type of lava

Answer 13

basaltic