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Once I started reading the first paragraph of the article written by Peter Cervelli “The Threat of Silent Earthquakes” it immediately drew me in. I was fascinated and alarmed by what I had just read. The fact that an earthquake with a 5.7 magnitude hit near a volcano where people visit every day and went unnoticed just blew me away (Cervelli). It is a blessing that the earthquake didn’t cause any devastation that day, but why did it not and if it had then how can we prepare for such a natural disaster? The article piqued my interest early and I had to read on to find out the answer to these questions. An earthquake is a terrifying natural disaster. The fact that a silent earthquake happened of that magnitude and didn’t cause the whole ground…

Most people know the basic facts concerning volcanoes. They know that when volcanoes erupt, hot lava flows out scalding the land and everything in sight. Why do volcanoes do that? What causes them to be destructive, yet beautiful? Not every region has a volcano. Just like not every region has a tectonically sensitive fault line. The Pacific Rim, also known as the Ring of Fire, is the habitat of 90% of the world’s volcanoes, earthquakes, and tsunamis. Four hundred and fifty two volcanoes are…

2016). This means that the ice will melt very quickly and create runoff water, especially when volcanic activity is involved. The eruption began on September 30th at approximately 22:00 GMT (Gı́slason, S.r, 2016). Earthquakes continued throughout the beginning of the eruption. The estimated eruption rate was 3.5 × 106 kg/s but slowed as the eruption continued. Total melt was approximately 3 km3 at the site. The eruption lasted close to 13 days, September 30th through October 13, 1996 (Gı́slason,…

09:49am ET Yellowstone hot spring Pin It When a supervolcano like Yellowstone erupts, residents may have a few hours to escape once the disaster has started, a new study suggests. Credit: "Windows into the Earth," Robert B. Smith and Lee J. Siegel View full size image Can you outrun a supervolcano? New evidence from an ancient eruption suggests the answer is a surprising yes. "I wouldn 't recommend anyone try to outrun a volcano, but there 's a few of us that could," said Greg Valentine, a…

A volcano is a surface landform resulting from the extrusion of magma from underground as lava, ash, rocks, and gasses are erupted in various proportions. Each year, around 60 major volcanoes erupt globally. How hazardous each one is dependent on a variety of human and physical factors that determine the level of impact on human activity that each event exerts. I will be looking at how the physical properties of a volcano, interact with human variables to make certain volcanoes more hazardous…

If this natural event had never occurred Lord Byron had maybe never of written this poem. Lord Byron used this poem to open the eyes of readers about how humans were treating the earth or maybe it was just a ways of art to add some sort of action to the story. The view of the reader may vary, but historical events of factory building and Byron’s location correlate to this theory. Lord Byron was known for making stories and poem that sort of had a cliff ending which means that it may be…

the magma chamber underneath Yellowstone. Yellowstone’s volcano will be an issue in the future of the United State. The questions are when will the volcano erupt and how can we be warned beforehand and what is going to happen to us after the eruption? Yellowstone has erupted three major times from 2.1 million years ago to 640 thousand years ago. The first eruption, which happened 2.1 million years ago, was said to be 6,000 times the size of the Mount St. Helen’s eruption back in 1980. After…

Gsci-131 Final Paper Mount Tambora is a volcano located on the northern coast of Sumbawa Island, Indonesia. The volcanic eruption in April 1815 is the largest recorded eruption in history. Mount Tambora forms the 60 kilometer long Sanggar Peninsula, previously standing at a height of approximately 5000 meters high. After the eruption, the volcano lost most of it’s top, now standing at 2,851 meters. Today the volcano still remains active. Smaller eruptions have taken place in 1880 and 1927.…

EES: 1030: 0B06 12/6/17 Toba, the Deadliest Volcano Eruption Around 74,000 years ago during the Quaternary period, the supervolcano known as, Toba, erupted in Northern Sumatra, Indonesia. Toba is thought to be one of the largest known eruptions the Earth has ever seen. And certainly the largest to erupt during the Quaternary period. Out of the three periods that make up the Cenozoic Era, the Quaternary period is the current and most recent of the three. The eruption of the Toba volcano did not…

INTRODUCTION The science of magneto hydrodynamics (MHD) deals with geophysical, astrophysical and engineering problems since many years. This subject has attracted attention of many researchers in the MHD flow on Newtonian fluids on plate, cones and disks. Hari R [30] investigated the chemical and radiation effects on MHD casson fluid flow past an oscillating vertical plate embedded in porous medium. Subbaiah Naidu [70] studied the effect of Hall current on free convective flow of stratified…