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    Mt. St. Helens is a stratovolcano part of a group of volcanoes called The Ring of Fire. These are created from the convergence/subduction between the Juan De Fuca plate and the North American plates. Its most common type of eruption is intermediate eruptions, which is what the composition was in its most recent eruption. Mt. St. Helens most recently erupted on May 18, 1980. An earthquake right under the mountain caused an enormous landslide/avalanche going close to 150 mph. A huge hazard from…

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    On September 27, 2014 Japan’s Mount Ontake erupted catching everyone by surprise, including over 250 hikers at the resorts and shrines on the peak. In contrast recently everyone around the globe was able to track the eruption by Iceland’s Bardarbunga due to a web of advanced technology, allowing them to even track where the magma was underground. Japan has a very similar array but was unable to predict Ontake’s eruption. This is due to the fact that it was what is called a phreatic eruption, or…

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    Mount Fuji Research Paper

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    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…

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    Kamchatka Research Paper

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    of geology very fascinating and I plan on choosing it as a major but I especially find the geology of Kamchatka to be very interesting. In my presentation, I will be discussing the history of the Kamchatka Peninsula, the tectonic plates and the ring of fire, and some of my favorite volcanos in Russia. On the far eastern side of Russia, there is a 270,000-kilometer peninsula that houses all the volcanos in Russia called the Kamchatka Peninsula. Kamchatka, like Russia, has extremely cold winters…

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    the strongest. It goes really fast and most of the tsunami occurred in the fire-ring in the pacific ocean.…

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    Kilauea Vs Fujiyama Essay

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    Hawaii’s Kilauea versus Mount Fujiyama Ever since I was a little girl I have always been fascinated with volcanoes. How do they work? How hot is the lava exactly? Can you travel down into the funnel of a volcano, and if so how and will you survive? And do all volcanoes function the same way? As a child, we never understood that the beautiful hot magma that flows from the volcano is dangerous and burns everything in its path. Two volcanoes that have always caught my eye is Hawaii’s Kilauea and…

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    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…

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    and stream gauges. Paleo proxies such as tree rings and cores from corals and ice caps also provide information on a resolution in terms of precipitation and in some cases extreme measures such as fires or volcanic activity. As the earth rotates on it’s axis it creates the process which is called diurnal cycle which is the process of changing day to night. 1 Year At this time…

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    Out line Introduction: I recommend that Japan uses renewable energies rather than nuclear energy. Paragraph 1: Japan’s geographical feature (ring of fire) Paragraph 2: The nuclear power plant accident occurred in Japan recently. Paragraph 3: Japan’s economy, ecosystem damaged by the radiation. Paragraph 4: what happens when exposed to radiation? Paragraph 5: Advantage of using nuclear energy Paragraph 6: Disadvantages of using nuclear energy Paragraph 7: How many renewable energies are there,…

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    Hunga-Miami Earthquake

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    coast of Tonga, an underwater volcanic eruption of the volcano Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai caused an island to form. Located in the South Pacific, this landmass has the lat/long. - 20.570/-175.380, according to LANDSAT. Climate in this region is tropical year round. Weather from November all the way to April is “a hotter more humid period” according to, The South Pacific Organizer, with an average temperature of 33 degrees Celsius (91 Fahrenheit). On the contrary, the weather from May to October,…

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