Hawaiian Volcano Observatory

carrying the wealthy elite on litters, and many other jobs that archaeologists believe they had done. When Mount Vesuvius erupted in the year 79 CE in Pompeii Italy, it completely decimated the city and everything else in its path. The collapse of the volcano triggered a hundred mile an hour pyroclastic avalanche that roared through the city and killed an estimated two-thousand people of the twenty-thousand of its residents. Miraculously, this means that many have fled successfully from the…

the basic facts, such as how the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum were covered with ash, how many, many people died because of the volcano eruption, and how the description we have of the eruption is from a letter written by Pliny the Younger (61AD-113AD). However, many students are not taught about what Roman life was like in Pompeii before the eruption of the volcano. The evidence that has since been recovered by excavations of the cities has shown a vast amount of artifacts that have given…

In can be seen from the above that the key to an earthquake-resistant building is strength and flexibility in the materials and structure, and of course the quality of the materials used is important. That is why earthquakes in parts of the world where houses are built in stone, such as North Africa, Nepal and Iran, are so deadly.” An 8.8 magnitude earthquake in Chile killed more than 700 people, whereas in Haiti, a less powerful earthquake measuring 7.0, killed more than 200,000.” (Imagination…

VMS deposits occur in a diversity of shapes ranging from flat lens shaped to large sheet-like sulphide mineral rich bodies (Allen, et al., 2002). The preferred environment for these deposits to form in is submarine near a seafloor opening i.e. black smokers, where hydrothermal fluids escape and precipitate on the ocean bottom (Evans & Moon, 2006). The mineralogy of Kidd Creek VMS deposits often consists out of more than 60 different ore minerals and ore-related gangue minerals, of which 90% or…

one of the most famous volcanos on the planet. It is in the Eastern Hemisphere, and does not lie on the ring of fire, which is somewhat rare. Mount Vesuvius in located on the continent of Europe and in the country of Italy. Its geographical coordinates are North 40 degrees and East 14 degrees. The tectonic plates below Mount Vesuvius are the Eurasian and African Plates. The plates that have interacted to form this volcano are convergent. It is still an active volcano and in the past the…

Have you ever thought about how a volcanic eruption could impact a civilization? Some civilizations could be really affected, while other civilizations could have very minimal damage done to them. I am going to tell you about three different times volcanoes have affected civilizations and you will be surprised at some of the damage done. The first volcanic eruption that I am going to tell you about happened in Kalapana, Hawaii. It was Mount Kilauea that had caused all the damage that still…

Mount Vesuvius is located on Campania, Italy. It is one of several other volcanos that form the Campanian volcanic arc. Vesuvius consists of a big cone partly bordered by the rim of a summit caldera caused by the breakdown of a former and initially much higher arrangement. The height of the main cone has been continually changed by eruptions but was 4,203 feet in 2010. Vesuvius is a stratovolcano at the convergent boundary where the African Plate is being subducted below the Eurasian Plate.…

Many people moved to Pompeii for its fertile soil and volcanic ash. 17 years before the eruption a staggering earthquake hit Pompeii and Herculaneum. On the 24h of August 79ce, the volcano Vesuvius erupted. It was an eruption that lasted 24 hours. The eruption was cast into 2 stages. The first part was were the volcano released debris into the air almost twice the height of Mount Everest. The second part was when all of the debris rolled down the huge hill enclosing most of the towns in a…

Dante's peak is located in the State of Washington, in the Cascade Mountains. Gas Content was that was being presented had sulfur dioxide, carbon dioxide, and methane. Which lead to the explosive eruption, and the lava that had came out of the volcano was both Pahoehoe and Ahaha. The magma was mafic, along that the type of cone Dante’s Peak was composite. Some realistic evidence in the movies was that the water temperature can rise to acidic, but water…

The Caribbean tectonic plate has a wide variety of height and depth within its borders. While all the land and islands are quite tall, the middle of the plate, that is mostly sea, is much more deep in some areas than others. Around the Yucatan Peninsula, Central America, and all the islands are gradual slopes that gain more depth the further from land-above-sea-level you get, however, from Honduras and Nicaragua to Jamaica, where there should be deeper sea, there is quite a lot of height but…