see tsunami lessons 10 a and 10b CASE STUDY JAPAN EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMI 2011 see Tsunami lesson 10b The Eyjafjallajokull Volcano Iceland 2010 Predominant volcanic hazards ash and ID: 708191
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Case study Indian Ocean Tsunami Dec 2004( see tsunami lessons 10 a and 10b)Slide2
CASE STUDY JAPAN EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMI 2011(see Tsunami lesson 10b….)Slide3
The Eyjafjallajokull Volcano, Iceland 2010
( Predominant volcanic hazards- ash and jokulhaup) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmEJRmBcM0oSlide4
Volcano Eyjafjallajökull
Answer:C. Plate tectonics = Volcano Eyjafjallajökull on Iceland
Volcano Eyjafjallajökull
(
AY-yah-fyah-lah-YOH-kuul
)
has only erupted three times since the Vikings settled the island in the 9th century (1200 years ago..)
The last eruption was in 1820 but
af
ter
being dormant for nearly 200 years,
the volcano began erupting in late March.Slide5
Tourists rushed to Iceland to see the fiery display!
Boiling Point
The intense heat began melting the 200m thick glacier on top of it and the massive flooding caused a mass evacuation of people
and wreaked havoc for the farmers who raise sheep, cattle and horses on the pastures around the volcano.Slide6
Worse than Lava?
In the second week of April the volcano began spewing huge amounts of ash 8-11km up into the atmosphere.
Strong winds then blew this ash cloud right across Northern Europe, shutting down the airports.
Millions of people around the world have been stranded in airports, unable to get home.Slide7
The island of Iceland sits on top of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge fault line between two great shifting tectonic plates.
Why did it erupt?
Eruptions are often triggered when the Earth’s tectonic plates move and magma from deep underground pushes up to the surface.
Iceland has a lot of volcanoes!Slide8
The effects
5 million travellers, including 1m Britons were stranded at UK or overseas airports, unable to fly.
A group of schoolgirl fencers from Durham were stranded in Beijing, China and were told that they might not be able to fly back until May 4 – two weeks after the start of term.
(Mysteriously, they seemed very happy!)
The Prince of Wales, Barack Obama and David Miliband, the Foreign Secretary, had to abandon plans to travel to the funeral of Lech Kaczynski, the Polish President, who had died in an air crash the previous week.
1. InconvenienceSlide9
In Kenya, millions of pounds of vegetables and flowers ready to be flown in the baggage holds of passenger flights to British supermarkets were destroyed because there was no point in the planes leaving if they couldn’t land.
The effects
2. The poorest in Africa suffer
£1.3 million of freshly cut flowers are grown every day in Kenya and trucked to Nairobi for flights to the UK.