Mt Merapi, Indonesia

Question 1

When did the eruption occur

Answer 1

October 2010

Question 2

short term responses

Answer 2

-210 evac centres set up either as tents, in schools, churches or stadiums
-1600 people either volunteers or military part of national aid response

Question 3

long term responses

Answer 3

-2700 roughly had to be moved to new, safer housing
-formal evac centres eventually set up bc schools, etc needed to use for official uses

Question 4

monitoring

Answer 4

-began in 1940’s using seismometers
-some volcano monitoring centres still around today

Question 5

VEI scale

Answer 5

4

Question 6

where is it located

Answer 6

-part of ring of fire
-subduction zone of indo-australian and Eurasian plates

Question 7

what type of volcano and lava

Answer 7

active composite and andesitic lava

Question 8

how high was column of smoke

Answer 8

1.5 km

Question 9

what was a result of the pyroclastic activity

Answer 9

18 deaths

Question 10

how many made homeless

Answer 10

200,000

Question 11

how many displaced

Answer 11

320,000

Question 12

what created the lahar

Answer 12

ash, rock and lava deposited on the sides of the volcano washed down into towns by heavy rainfall

Question 13

what income country

Answer 13

LIC

Question 14

what caused the detrimental effects

Answer 14

-extreme poverty making evacuation difficult, no power, lack of warning due to funds being stopped by UN as a result of corrupt gov

Question 15

how did lava escape and what speed

Answer 15

through fissures opening in the south side of the volcano, reached 40mph

Question 16

how far away was it from the city

Answer 16

6 miles from city of Goma

Question 17

what is the volcano part of

Answer 17

east African rift valley, area of many faults where plates are being stretched as they move away from each other