'The Mount Pinatubo Case Study\r'

'case study mount pinatubo THE tantalize PINATUBO ERUPTION 1991 the mount pinatubo belt was the second largest kick of this century and by far the largest gust bear upon a densely populated area. the bam occurred at mount pinatubo in the philippines on june 15 1991. in march and april 1991 magma rising towards the surface fread-only memory more(prenominal) than 30 km below pinatubo started making dispirited earthquakes and caused sm in all(a) powerful steam blowup that opened trio craters on the magnetic north-central flank of the vent. thousands of slender earthquakes occurred  and numerous scads of botch were also emitted by the volcano. rom june 7 to june 12 the magma reached the surface of mount pinatunbo. because of the screw up cart the magma erupted out with an amazing strength righteous now did not cause an explosive eruption because it just formed a lava dome. on june 12 heaps of botch charged magma reached the lead of the volcano and erupted with the in truth first proper eruption. when even more magma reached the top the volcano erupted in a cataclysmic eruption on june 15. the eruption ejected more than 5 solid kilometers of existent. the alter tree cloud reached the height of 35 km in the sky. blanket of change tree c oered all the land around pinatubo. fine ash flew thousands of kilometers out reaching also the inidian ocean. massive go prevail overs of hot ash rolled down the sides of pinatubo. the eruption removed so much material from the volcano that the volcano collapsed and from a clad era of 2. 5 km. many hazards occurred with the volcano. the eruption produced high speed avalanches of hot gas and ash ( pyroclastic flows) giant mudflows (lahars) and a cloud of volcanic ash covering hundred of miles across. early 20 millions tons of sulfur dioxide were blown in the air and were scatter around the world causing an improver  in temperature of around 0. 5 degrees. Mt ST HELENS ERUPTION mt st helens is a strata volcano located in the terra firma of washinghton, US the eruption caused many hazards and many impacts on people envirmoent and economy. the earthquake on may 18 lead to a series of events:a 5. 1 earthquake was caused by the massive eruption the projection of the volcano slid away, resulting in a huge avalanche of rock-and-roll and mud that filled 24 fledges miles of a valley. he eruption real eased a massive cloud of ash and pum scrap. the effect of the eruption also included: the volcano was reduced of 1300 feet, ash fell miles away from the eruption, the eruption lasted over 9 hours,. around 60 people lost their lives . over 250 square miles of land were destroyed by all the eruption hazards. countless animals were killed. as in all the volcanoes the first signs of eruption were given by an increase in small earthquakes near the volcano area. this showed that the pressure inside the volcano chamber was increasing. oon lines of weakness were created by the earthquakes on the top of the mountain. earthquakes were many especially infra the north flank of the volcano. in fact the first eruption was from the summit rather than from the flank. on the twenty-seventh of march this small eruption kept going. the volcano was principal(prenominal)ly gas and ash and a small cloud of material was sent up over the cone. this stage was a Vulcanian type of eruption. but because the coat of the eruption was small the ash fell down on the ground close to the summit and the main effect was simply to blacken the snow fields. he cause of these small eruptions was probably water from ice fields ending in the hot rock below and transforming suddenly into steam, throwing materials around. as the old age went by a large bulge started forming across the north flank , about 2km across, separate from the central vent. it showed that the material blocking the central vent was stuck fast and that the magma was pursuance a way out through the north flank. the earthquakes had weakened all the north flank more than any other part of the cone. on may 18 at 8 a. m the wide-cut north flank of the volcano dropped down in a massive landslide of 2 cuboid kilometers of rock. ow with nothing to hold in place the magma and the gas , the gas rich magma exploded in a gigantic eruption. in fact the landslide was bust in many parts by the explosion so that a mixture of rock fragments and gas was formed. this type of eruption was now a pelean type, and the pyroclastic flows were qualified to flow 250 kmh. part of this pyroclastic flow went near by spirit lake throwing out the water entirely from the lake. the sprout demolished the huge dorset that lay on the north side of the volcano, leveling everything over an area of 550 square kilometers. lose to the volcano the blast of the explosion was so strong that trees were simply blown away. in thoroughgoing some 10 millions trees were destroyed. ash was deposited miles away and the townspeople of yakima was cover ed in ash. in the following days of the eruption very sticky laval began to flow into the recent crater, building up a lava dome on the crater floor. all the snow and glaciers on the mountains were cancelled in to steam and they were now coming cover song on the ground as torrential peltingfall. the rain swept most of the ash in the nearby rivers , causing flooding and at the same prison term silting them up.\r\n'