The Dangers Of Shield Volcanoes
Dangers of Living Near Volcanoes Volcanoes provide beautiful background scenery, causing people to commonly settle around the area of volcanoes around the world. While active volcanoes provide many jobs for workers in the energy and tourism industries, is it worth having your life threatened constantly? Volcanoes are known to have destructive eruptions which destroy everything in the area. Is it truly worth risking the life of yourself and your loved ones just for a pretty view?
Shield Volcanoes
Shield Volcanoes can pose devastating effects upon eruption. Though Shield Volcanoes tend to have little gas build-up and little pyroclastic outbursts, these volcanoes can be extremely dangerous. Quiet eruptions and large amounts of fast, runny lava …show more content…
Cinder-Cone Volcanoes release little lava and have very loud explosions. The main threat of these volcanoes is the large amounts of pyroclastic materials building up inside.
Even though running lava is not that large of a threat to people living near Cinder-Cone Volcanoes, heavy ashfall and other pyroclastic materials are a large risk. When these volcanoes erupt, the volcano roars as it releases these materials through its vents. Ash and dust often the aerial effect of these volcanoes, suffocating humans and animals in the area. This leaves anybody outside vulnerable to the volcanoes attacks. This isn’t the only threat though. When pyroclastic materials escape the vents of Cinder-Cone volcanoes, some of these materials gather up into one huge wave that can be hot enough to make your blood boil. This wave tumbles down the side of the volcano, demolishing wildlife and nearby settlements. This wave is critical to anyone outside or inside. Would you really want your neighbor to be a towering monster that can go of at any …show more content…
According to http://www.geology.sdsu.edu/how_volcanoes_work/Paricutin.html, “Strombolian pyroclastic activity began at the fissure on the day it was discovered by Dionisio Pulido. Within 24 hours the eruption had generated a 50-m-high scoria cone. Within a week, it had grown to a height of 100 m from the accumulation of bombs and lapilli, and finer fragments of ash were raining down on the village of Paricutin,” Later the article states that the city of Paricutin had to be evacuated as lava slowly approached. The result of the eruptions let hundreds either dead, injured, or
Shield Volcanoes
Shield Volcanoes can pose devastating effects upon eruption. Though Shield Volcanoes tend to have little gas build-up and little pyroclastic outbursts, these volcanoes can be extremely dangerous. Quiet eruptions and large amounts of fast, runny lava …show more content…
Cinder-Cone Volcanoes release little lava and have very loud explosions. The main threat of these volcanoes is the large amounts of pyroclastic materials building up inside.
Even though running lava is not that large of a threat to people living near Cinder-Cone Volcanoes, heavy ashfall and other pyroclastic materials are a large risk. When these volcanoes erupt, the volcano roars as it releases these materials through its vents. Ash and dust often the aerial effect of these volcanoes, suffocating humans and animals in the area. This leaves anybody outside vulnerable to the volcanoes attacks. This isn’t the only threat though. When pyroclastic materials escape the vents of Cinder-Cone volcanoes, some of these materials gather up into one huge wave that can be hot enough to make your blood boil. This wave tumbles down the side of the volcano, demolishing wildlife and nearby settlements. This wave is critical to anyone outside or inside. Would you really want your neighbor to be a towering monster that can go of at any …show more content…
According to http://www.geology.sdsu.edu/how_volcanoes_work/Paricutin.html, “Strombolian pyroclastic activity began at the fissure on the day it was discovered by Dionisio Pulido. Within 24 hours the eruption had generated a 50-m-high scoria cone. Within a week, it had grown to a height of 100 m from the accumulation of bombs and lapilli, and finer fragments of ash were raining down on the village of Paricutin,” Later the article states that the city of Paricutin had to be evacuated as lava slowly approached. The result of the eruptions let hundreds either dead, injured, or