Mount Merapi

Question 1

Where? 1

Answer 1

Central Java, Indonesia

Question 2

When? 1

Answer 2

2010 October

Question 3

Cost of damage 1

Answer 3

600 million dollars

Question 4

Deaths 1

Answer 4

353 deaths, 28 immediately

Question 5

Smoke 1

Answer 5

1.5 km vertical smoke

Question 6

Causes 1

Answer 6

At a destructive plate boundary, part of the Ring of Fire

Question 7

Homeless people 1

Answer 7

200,000 people now homeless

Question 8

People fleeing homes 1

Answer 8

278,000 people fled

Question 9

Economic Impacts 1

Answer 9

Farming industry hit massively, people became bankrupt and could not afford better homes

Question 10

Environmental Impacts 2

Answer 10

Ash fell on farms and towns, providing respiratory illness and death for animals and humans
Water Contaminated

Question 11

Short Term Responses 3

Answer 11

210 evacuation centres set up
1600 volunteers/military came
Red Cross donated supplies

Question 12

Long Term 3

Answer 12

2682 people were moved
Government donated money to farmers, but was not enough
Government set up task force to help people, however many criticised