Lava Records

happen, volcanoes can erupt. This means that the gases and melted rock below shoot up through the opening and spill over as lava. Eruptions can lead to lava flows, falling ash, mudslides, and much more. How do volcanoes form? Volcanoes form when magma deep within the Earth makes its way to the surface. When the volcano erupts, lava spills over and ash rains down. Each time the lava and ash deposits cool, they create a bigger and bigger volcano. When do volcanoes erupt? The outer shell of the…

They both relate because they both occur when tectonic plates move. When a volcano is in their active stage of life it will experience seismic anomalies being caused by the movement of magma within the chamber, then when the rocks are really hot and earthquake will arise. Earthquakes and Volcanoes occur when tectonic plates are moving. Tectonic plates are pieces of the earths crust and upper mantle. Earthquakes are cause when the rock underneath us suddenly breaks along a fault. The release of…

Mount Fuji is a volcanic mountain situated in Japan, south-west of Tokyo on the largest island, Honshu. It’s longitude is 35.3606° and its latitude is 138.7278°. It is over 3.7 kilometers tall, making it the highest volcano in Japan. The last confirmed eruption of Mount Fuji, was on the 15th of December 1707. It is still an active volcano. In 2014 there was speculation that it would erupt because of the pressure from the 2011 earthquake which reached 9.0 on the Richter scale. Mount Fuji was not…

Mount Saint Helens On the day of May 18, 1980 at 8:32 a.m., one of the most deadly and economically destructive volcanic eruption took place. This eruption was from Mount Saint Helens located almost one hundred miles south of Seattle, Washington. The famous eruption killed fifty-seven people, destroyed two hundred fifty homes, forty-seven bridges, fifteen miles of railways and one hundred eighty-five miles of highway. Mount Saint Helens had been dormant for the past one hundred twenty-three…

gases explode and may burst out the sides of the cone in addition to the summit crater. Mt Vesuvius is a Stratovolcano also known as a composite volcano. Stratovolcanoes are also called composite as they are made of built up of alternating layers of lava flow, ash and blocks of unmelted stone. Stratovolcanoes form above the subduction zone at plate boundaries. They are known for erupting with great violence. They are larger than cinder cones nd result from a conduit system; vents lead from…

Mazama's first eruption was somewhere around 420,000 years ago,” says UMASS (the University of Massachusetts). As hundreds of thousands of years passed, Mazama’s eruptions became more violent and destructive. These eruptions usually included thick lava and slow flows. USGS informs us. “These eruptions, however, were nothing compared to Mount Mazama’s major eruption years after.”…

A giant is born from the depths of the ocean, a catastrophe waiting to happen. As hot magma bubbles up from the depths of the earth, it pushes through the surface and Krakatoa is born. The 1883 eruption of Krakatoa was devastating. The resulting toxic gases, deadly pyroclastic flows, and giant tsunamis are astonishing. The eruption of Krakatoa was the loudest eruption ever heard in history. Krakatoa is located in the Sunda Strait between Java and Sumatra in Indonesia. The island of Krakatoa is…

Volcanoes exist all around the world. A volcano is a break in the Earth’s crust that produces lava, gases, ash. Some volcanoes are active and some volcanoes extinct and dormant. Magma usually forms 30 to 120 miles beneath Earth’s surface. Most volcanoes are tourist attractions and most people like to climb them and to live near them to produce some heat to there house when the people don't have any heat. Villarrica is located in the country of chile. Villarrica has a 4 star warning and…

Kilimanjaro rises approximately 4,877 metres (16,001 ft) from its southern base in the plains near the municipality of Moshi to its summit height of 5,895 metres (19,341 ft).[2] Kilimanjaro is the highest volcano outside South America.[7] Kilimanjaro is a large stratovolcano and is composed of three distinct volcanic cones: Kibo, the highest; Mawenzi at 5,149 metres (16,893 ft);[8] and Shira, the shortest at 4,005 metres (13,140 ft).[9] Mawenzi and Shira are extinct, while Kibo is dormant and…

5,000 people had been evacuated from surrounding areas. On June 5th, more evacuations began to take place with a level 3 alert issued, meaning a possibility of a major eruption. By June 9th, a level 5 alert had been issued with the extrusion of a lava dome. This meant that there was an eruption in progress. 25,000 people were evacuated in an area of 20 km from the mountain. At the time of the eruption, 58,000 people had been evacuated from an area of 30 km from the…