Prediction Flashcards
1
Q
How is locating volcanoes easy ?
A
As mainly involves tectonic plates
2
Q
How to we predict them ?
A
Smaller scale activity/ eruptions.
Study of previous history.
Monitor land swelling.
Ground water levels.
Gas emissions using a goat.
Abnormal dog behaviour.
Monitoring sock waves that cause expanding of cracks in rocks
3
Q
Colombian volcano Nevada del Ruiz 1984?
A
Small scale activity but volcanologist can’t prescribe exactly when the major event would take place.
It continued for several months and people stayed in the area to work/ live and when the final event occurred almost all the population states so 20,000 died from Lahars.
