The document discusses the harmful effects of volcanic gases, lava flows, and ballistic projectiles from eruptions. Lava flows can destroy everything in their path and cause other hazards. Ballistic projectiles endanger life and property through impacts, burial, and carrying noxious gases. The document lists signs that a volcanic eruption may be impending like changes in heat flow and detection of precursory events.
The document discusses the harmful effects of volcanic gases, lava flows, and ballistic projectiles from eruptions. Lava flows can destroy everything in their path and cause other hazards. Ballistic projectiles endanger life and property through impacts, burial, and carrying noxious gases. The document lists signs that a volcanic eruption may be impending like changes in heat flow and detection of precursory events.
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The document discusses the harmful effects of volcanic gases, lava flows, and ballistic projectiles from eruptions. Lava flows can destroy everything in their path and cause other hazards. Ballistic projectiles endanger life and property through impacts, burial, and carrying noxious gases. The document lists signs that a volcanic eruption may be impending like changes in heat flow and detection of precursory events.
The document discusses the harmful effects of volcanic gases, lava flows, and ballistic projectiles from eruptions. Lava flows can destroy everything in their path and cause other hazards. Ballistic projectiles endanger life and property through impacts, burial, and carrying noxious gases. The document lists signs that a volcanic eruption may be impending like changes in heat flow and detection of precursory events.
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HARMFUL EFFECTS OF
VOLCANIC GASES LAVA FLOW - streams of molten rock that pour or ooze from an erupting vent
- typically move slowly
enough to outrun them, but they will destroy everything in their path DEVASTATING EFFECTS OF LAVA FLOWS 1.) Lava flows may instigate other types of 4.) If it enters a body of water or water hazards. enters a lava tube, the water may boil violently and cause an explosive shower of molten spatter over a wide area. 2.) Everything in the path of an advancing lava flow will be knocked over, 5.) Methane gas, pruced as lava buries surrounded, buried, or ignited by the vegetation, can migrate in subsurface extremely hot temperature of lava. voids and explode when heated.
3.) When lava erupts beneath a glacier or 6. ) Thick viscous lava flows, especially fflows over snow and ice, melt water from those that build a dome, can collapse to the ice and snow can result in far-reaching form fast-moving pyroclastic flows. lahars. BALLISTIC PROJECTILES
- are volcanic materials directly
ejected from the volcano's vent with force and trajectory.
These blocks and bombs travel like
cannonballs and usually land within 2km of the vent. DEVASTATING EFFECTS OF BALLISTIC PROJECTILES TEPHRA falls and ballistic projectiles of motors, human lungs, industrial endanger life annd property by: machines, and nuclear power plants;
(1) the force of impact of falling (4) carrying of noxious gases, acids, salts, fragments, but this occurs only close to an and, close to the vent, heat; and eruption; (5) burial by tephra can collapse roofs of buildings, break power and (2) loss of agricultural land if burial is communication lines and damageor kill greater than 10 cm depth; vegetation.
(3) producing suspensions of fine-grained
particles in air and water which clogs SIGNS OF AN IMPENDING VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS THE FOLLOWING ARE SOME OF THE OBSERVABLE SIGNS VOLCANOLOGISTS HAVE IDENTIFIED WHEN A VOLCANO IS ABOUT TO ERUPT:
• Most volcanoes provide various type of warnings
before eruptions begin. • People living near volcano may detect premonitory events before an eruption. • Measurement of changes in heat flow • Detection of interpretation of precursory events
