The third and final reason why people shouldn’t live near a volcano is because of the damage an eruption can cause. Most of the hazards can either bury, burn or wipe away anything in its path including important belongings to people like homes, farmland, and businesses. According to the Pacific Disaster Center, “The May 18, 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens, in the U.S., generated a horizontally directed series of explosions that formed a lateral blast. This blast destroyed a 230-square-mile area. Trees 6 feet in diameter were mowed down like blades of grass as far as 15 miles from the volcano,” “Between 1983 and 1993, basalt lava flows erupted at Kilauea Volcano is Hawaii destroying nearly 200 houses and severing the coast highway along the
