Less rainfall means there is less water to enter into the facility and transport radioactive waste. On the negative side there are three things which cause me an unsteady feeling. First, the mountain is in an area where there has been volcanic activity. Because of the activity strong gases have entered into the ground which could cause explosions to be destructive. Secondly, the area has several faults running through the area where the proposed facility was to be built.
A county that have most fracking is now more polluted than Los Angeles. Doctors also said because of fracking the cancer rate in people is increasing. People can’t be treated because the substances used in fracking are unknown. One the biggest losses are the substances used for fracking are kept unknown from people and even from workers working in these factories. Because they are hazardous.
These gases increase around the time of an eruption. This is a feature of volcanic events but becomes a hazard when this affects the people around the area- for example the events of Lake Nyos. In 1985, Lake Nyos in Cameroon emitted large amounts of carbon dioxide in a short amount of time and suffocated around 1,700 people and 3,500 livestock overnight. This is an LEDC and it could be argued that if the area was wealthier, warnings could have been given to the local area and allow people enough time to evacuate; Therefore having a greater negative impact on the poorer people of Cameroon than an MEDC may suffer. Secondary effects include flooding, lahars and in severe cases- climate change.
Compare and evaluate two contrasting eruptions and evaluate how damaging they were. I am going to compare the Eyjafjallajokull eruption of 2010 and the Chaiten eruption of 2008. Both eruptions were damaging in different ways: The town of Chaiten is in Chile, an LEDC, and the Chaiten volcano had not erupted for 9500 years prior to May 2, 2008. Chaiten is part of the longest chain of Fold Mountains in the world, the Andes Mountains, and sits above the Peru-Chile subduction zone. In this convergent boundary, the denser Nazca Plate is being subducted beneath the less dense continental lithosphere of the South American tectonic plate.
On the other hand, the second disaster affects the cities more than the forests. It damages buildings, streets, and bridges and that will lead to human's death. These damages also will impacts the economy of the country. Moreover, the earthquakes may cause Tsunamis, if it happens in the
Everyday day across the world, plate tectonics and their respective movements cause various seismic and volcanic hazards and a common idea is that the poorest people suffer the greatest from the impacts of these hazards in their LDCs. This, however, is only true in some cases as there are several other factors that affect how severely people are impacted by the hazards in both human and physical ways. I personally disagree with this view and this is due to several topics I have studied considering both human and physical factors. The first point I will make is based simply on the fact that volcanoes and earthquakes can have different hazards within them both primary and secondary which can have the same impacts no matter whether you are rich or poor, a tectonic hazard does not specifically target poorer people, it affects the area surrounding the cause. With a volcano you can have different types of hazard depending on the location is respect to constructive and destructive margins and also including hot spots, at a constructive margin or hot spot you find shield volcanoes with basaltic lava and these eruptions are common enough that you can stay away from the danger zone at which point you are in little or no danger, Mauna Loa in Hawaii is a good example of this as nobody lives close enough to the vent to be in danger.
The pool of magma releases carbon dioxide (and other gases). As to how the carbon dioxide got into the lake, scientists have two different hypotheses. The first hypothesis states that the carbon dioxide could have been released into the lake from a sudden gas eruption via ancient lava pipes; the second, that carbon dioxide could have accumulated slowly in the lower parts of the lake, only to be released into the air by some force of Earth, such as an earthquake or landslide. There are only two other lakes in the world that are saturated with carbon dioxide this way, both of which are also in Africa. But how did a lake full of carbon dioxide kill so many people?
This is one of the oldest methods of knowing when ground deformation was caused because of rising lava. We also use electronic tilt meters, this is very similar to what a carpenter uses, it has a small container filled with a liquid and a bubble (to measure the change of the slope) There are different and varied sensitivity of tilt meters, for example; you can use tilt meters with ranges from 10 to 10,000 microradians depending on the volcano and range of tilt. “A bulge on the north flank, this was caused due to a blockage at the opening at the top of the volcano. The magma formed in a chamber on the side of the volcano and it was being pushed outward because the more magma was getting forced to the side. It increased by 7 ft a day.” Earthquakes You can predict when a volcano will erupt because you get earthquakes.
It is this side-to-side load which causes the worst damage, often collapsing poor buildings on the first shake. The side-to-side load can be worse if the shocks come in waves, and some bigger buildings can vibrate like a huge tuning fork, each new sway bigger than the last, until failure. This series of waves is more likely to happen where the building is built on deep soft ground, like Mexico City. A taller or shorter building nearby may not oscillate much at the same frequency. Often more weight has been added to a building or structure at most frequently at greater heights; say another floor and another over that; walls built round open balconies and inside partitions to make more, smaller, rooms; rocks piled on roofs to stop them blowing away; storage inside.
There are shield volcanoes, composite volcanoes, and cinder cone volcanoes. While all volcanoes share some characteristic similarities, each of them has its own unique aspects as well. The shield volcano is the largest type of volcano. These volcanoes are named after “shields” because their slope is long and gradual, making them look similar to a medieval shield lying on the ground. The shield volcano’s shape is actually caused by the way that it forms.