Unique Facts Of Volcanic Eruptions

Unique Facts Of Volcanic Eruptions

                 
            No 10 Most terrible eruption word After a 'long sleep' for more than 400 years, suddenly Sinabung in North Sumatra active again. Peak, Sunday , August 29 2010 at 1:08 pm, the mountain erupted. These eruptions spewed dust and smoke up an altitude of 1,500 meters from the foot of the mountain. More than 30,000 residents in the surrounding mountains so refugees. Event would volcanoes, particularly in indonesia is very often the case. Even records some historians mention that the earthquake big and terrible eruption has several times occured in this country. TIME magazine, make a list The most famous mountain and damage wordwide caused.

1. The mount Vesuvius

             This active volcano is located in the bay in the Maples southern Italy. as far as is known, Vesuvius has erupted 30 times. The most famous eruption occured in 78 AD, the eruption of lava and ash for days, burying Pomoeii and Stabiae in ash. Pompeii lost for 1,600 years. a author, pliny the younger (Pliny the Younger) describe the sudden eruotion was followed thick veil of dust that dropped the people who tried to flee. actual fatalities of this eruption is unknown, but menudur archaelogists, there are approximately 1,000 people.

       

      2.   Mount Krakatau

              In 1883, Krakatoa erupted. strength is scary, 13,00 times the power of the atomic bomb. The sound of explosions and rumbling rocks spit could be heard from a distance of thousands of miles even to small islands in the sea of Africa East. Hundreds of people have been killed instantly in Sumatra dust when the heat hit their home. Tempest did not stop there. The eruption of Krakatoa trigger a mega-tsunami. it is estimated that more than 36,000 people were killed at that time. and many victims that can not be buried.

  After the eruption, Krakatoa sank into the sea, but after realizing that a new island appeared in the same location in 1927 and occasionally eject lava burst. it was called the son Krakatoa.

      3.   Mount St.Helens

           The most famous mountain will erupt occured on may 18, 1980. eruption of the is either the worst volcanic eruption in terms of the strength of the eruption and loss throughout the history of the U.S economy. 57 people were killed, and the top of the mountain was reduced from 2,950 meters to 2,550 m. Location eruption now be a National Monument Mountain Volcano Mt.Helens.

      4.   Mount Tambora

             Data Volcanic explosivity index (VEI), an index eruption Similar mountain richter scale to measure magnitude-there are on a scale of 1-8. The eruption of mount Tambora in 1815 is on 7 scale. was very destructive means. Explosion Tambora Sumbawa region and make around in the dark. tens of thousands of people were killed by the eruption of Tambora was the largest ever recorded in history. Heat gushed pierce the atmosphere and change the world's climate. There was no summer in 1816 in Eorope and North America 'The yer without summer'. Tambora down into the ground several thousand feet, leaving a large crater in peak.

       5.   Mount Mauna Loa 

             Is the largest volcano in the world in terms of and one of five volcanoes that form the island of Hawai in the United States and Satate of hawai in the Pacific Ocean. He is active shield  volcano, with a volume estimated at approximately 18,000 cubic miles. Mauna Loa is one of the most active in world. Since 1843, Mauna Loa has erupted 33 times, the last in 1984

       6.   Mount Eyjafjallajokull

            Although not many people can pronounce his name properly and smoothly, the eruption of mount Eyjafjallajokul in iceland ejects ash volcanic confusing, because European air traffic screwed. thousands of passengers stranded at the airport, disrupted the economy, the goods agricultural commodities rot because they can not sent.

    The first eruption of this mountain took place on 20 March. But the next eruption, April 14, which is so cause havoc. the airline industry loss U.S 1 billion. Iceland ash restless creating global citizens: Eruptio at Eyjafjallajokull.

       7.   Mount Pelee

             Mount pelle with a height of more than 4,500 feet located in the French region of Martinique, best known for its eruption in may 1902, estimated to cost the lives of more than 30,000  people and destroyed St.Pelee.

       8.   Mount  Thera 

              Around 3,500 years ago, a major disaster i shook the Mediterranean. the volcano Thera (later known as the island of Santorini Greece ) exploded with what is expected four to five times  the power of the eruption of krakatoa in 1883. Massive eruption of Thera led to the extinction Minoan Greek culture. 

One of them, the legend of "The Lost Atlatis" or "The lost Continent of Atlantis".

       9. Mount Nevado del Ruiz

            Eruptions are actually tiny, only produce 3 percent over tha ash is ejected Mount St.Helens in 1980.

However, the 1985 eruption produced lava that buried the town and causing the death of 23,000 people The most deadly disasters to two in the 20th century this event is called the tragedy of Armero. Nevado del Ruis called the " Sleeping Lion" by the locals.

      10. Mount Pinatubo

            Located on the island  of luzon, Philippines . The mountain erupted in 1991 , more than 490 years after the eruption of activity last seen. This is the second largest eruption of the 20th century. The successful prediction to evacuate and rescue many lives. But the area around the volcano destroyed by pyroclastic flows, ash and lava .

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