Hawaiian Volcano Observatory

Excerpt from Keiko’s bomb The town exploded with a loud,rumbling sound. I looked up and faced the blinding light with intense heat. Seconds after, the ground started shaking with a vibration that I hadn't felt before. I ran as fast as I could, my heart thumping. Each step I took, my heartfelt heavier. As my hand grasped onto mythe thumping heart, I saw that my left hand was now all covered in blood. People seemed like they were flying in the air;he sound had stopped but the bodies were falling.…

Figure 1.1: Map Japan Kyushu is the third biggest island located in the south of Japan. Kyushu has a subtropical climate and offers active volcano peaks, natural beauty and near-tropical coastlines (Lonely Planet, 2015). Mount Aso is the largest active volcano, which is situated in the Aso region in Kumamoto Prefecture (Organization, 2015). This is an opportunity to attract tourism to Kyushu. Infrastructure Fukuoka is the largest city of Kyushu…

1.0 INTRODUCTION Japan is an island nation in East Asia and was located in the Pacific Ocean. The capital city of Japan is Tokyo. Japan has population around 125 million people. 98.5% of the population was comprises by the Yamato Japanese ethnic group and the other 1.5% includes Chinese, Koreans and the indigenous Ainu. In Japan, the two traditional religions are Buddhism and Shinto. 95% of the Japanese citizens abide by the fusion of Buddhism and Shintoism. The practices of Shinto and Buddhist…

Many theories are suspected of being the cause of the fall of these civilizations. When comparing the political, social and economic effects that led to the fall of these civilizations, there are many similarities and differences. Agriculture may have been the cause because it had much impact on these empires. Some experts say that the drying up of the Saraswati River may have been the main cause of the fall of the Indus Valley. Others experts say there may have been a flood in the…

waves called surface waves. These waves are considered to be the most destructive waves. Volcanoes Plate movement can also cause another natural disaster called volcano. Under certain conditions, when plates are pushed or pulled together, volcanoes are created thus, both earthquakes and volcanoes tend to occur in the same place. A volcano is a cone-shaped hill formed by materials from the mantle being forced through an opening in the Earth's…

Life in Pompeii, Uncovered Bang! In the year 79 AD, the huge volcano, Mount Vesuvius erupted covering everything around for miles in 20 feet of stones and ash. Pompeii was one of the devastated cities. A cloud of poisonous gas from the volcano killed thousands of people. No one has lived in the city for almost 2,000 years. Even though Pompeii seemed destroyed, it had actually been perfectly preserved. In this essay, I will explain the aftermath, daily objects, and the similarities of Pompeii…

comes to the surface. Volcanic eruption results from magma.The summit of magma sometimes they rise to the vent instead of the crater. Volcanos can also be by plate boundary. When lava comes to the surface ras rises to the crater. Mount St Helens is located in the U.S. in Washington. Mount St Helens is on the southwest of Washington. Mount St Helens is a dormant volcano. In its spectacular eruption in 1980, it placed itself deep into collective memory. The eruption in 1980 followed a long…

My report is about the book "Pompeii" by Ron and Nancy Goor 1986.The book is 118 pages. The book tells of the pre-death, death, and rediscovery of the roman city Pompeii. In this report I will be focusing mainly on exploring the pre-death of the city but will touch upon the death and rediscovery as we continue. This is the story and culture of Pompeii, a living ghost town. Our story begins on August 24th,A.D 79, the day Mount Vesuvius erupted. At around one p.m, as many pompeiians were eating…

Australia was once part of Antarctica and slowly made its journey towards north, I am going to focus on the landscape history of Australia after its separation from Antarctica starting with the Permian period. At this time Australia was still located near South Pole and slowly moving north, during this period Australia was covered by ice, regions in Australia began to wear off forming sedimentary basins on land. By the time it was Cretaceous period Australia was a low and quite flat continent…

Dear Dr. Anthony Davis, The entire Eighth grade,including the teachers, has been thinking about going on a field trip to a very amazing and educational place. We have been thinking about going on a field trip to the Lava Beds National Monument, but to do this we would need your approval which I hope we will receive after I give you the in depth details of the educational values we would indulge in on this trip. On this field trip we would learn about the history of the formation of the lava…