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Have any earthquakes floods mudslides lahars etc on Mt Kilauea?
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What are major hazards associated with volcanic eruptions?
Most deaths during eruptions occur during pyroclastic flows/surges during an eruption and volcanic mudslides (known as lahars) after the eruption.
What is a natural disastar?
A natural disaster is a disaster caused by nature, such as floods, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, tsunamis, avalanches, lahars (volcanic mudslides), landslides, sinkholes, blizzards, drought, hailstorms, heat waves, hurricanes, tropical storms, typhoons, Ice Ages, tornadoes, and wildfires. Epidemics caused by bacteria or viruses are sometimes considerednatural disasters, but sometimes put into a different category. A biological threat such as locusts or toxic fungi could also be considered a natural disaster.
Can volcanic eruption and seismic tremors produce large mudflows and debris flows?
Yes. Earthquakes and volcanic eruptions can cause debris flows. Volcanic eruptions can mudflows called lahars.
Are lahars hot?
They can be if they are triggered by an eruption melting snow and ice. However, some lahars occur from rainfall on old ash deposits that have had time to cool. These lahars are not hot.
Which is not an example of intrusive activity sills and dikes laccoliths lahars Batholiths?
Lahars are not intrusive. They are mudflows formed from extrusive material.
What are mudslides produced by volcanoes called?
Lahars
What are some effects of earthquakes?
liquifaction, fires, lahars(mudslides) mass destruction of buildings.
What are major hazards associated with volcanic eruptions?
Most deaths during eruptions occur during pyroclastic flows/surges during an eruption and volcanic mudslides (known as lahars) after the eruption.
What is a natural disastar?
A natural disaster is a disaster caused by nature, such as floods, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, tsunamis, avalanches, lahars (volcanic mudslides), landslides, sinkholes, blizzards, drought, hailstorms, heat waves, hurricanes, tropical storms, typhoons, Ice Ages, tornadoes, and wildfires. Epidemics caused by bacteria or viruses are sometimes considerednatural disasters, but sometimes put into a different category. A biological threat such as locusts or toxic fungi could also be considered a natural disaster.
Why is lahars dangerous?
A lahar is a mudflow made from ash and similar volcanic material. These mudflows moves like floods but are denser, making them more destruct. Buildings can be crushed or carried away, and towns can be buried. When a lahars stops the mud stays where it is and eventually hardens. People may be buried alive.
Are lahars examples of intrusive igneous activity?
No. Lahars are the result of extrusive activity.
Can volcanic eruption and seismic tremors produce large mudflows and debris flows?
Yes. Earthquakes and volcanic eruptions can cause debris flows. Volcanic eruptions can mudflows called lahars.
Are lahars hot?
They can be if they are triggered by an eruption melting snow and ice. However, some lahars occur from rainfall on old ash deposits that have had time to cool. These lahars are not hot.
Can tall structures prevent volanoes and lahars?
No. Tall structures will not affect volcanoes. Dams can potentially mitigate lahars.
Which is not an example of intrusive activity sills and dikes laccoliths lahars Batholiths?
Lahars are not intrusive. They are mudflows formed from extrusive material.
Can mud flows and lahars be prevented?
Mudflows and lahars can be prevented or greatly reduced by planting deep rooted vegetation in places they might occur.
Why are snow capped volcanoes devastating when they erupt?
When a snow-capped volcano erupts the heat can melt snow and ice. This can cause floods or, more often, mudflows called lahars. Such an event caused one of the worst volcanic disasters in recorded history. In 1985 a volcano in Columbia named Nevado del Ruiz erupted.Water from the melted glaciers at the mountain's peak generated a series of lahars that buried Armero and several other towns, killing 23,000 people.
