Background: • Nevado Del Ruiz is an active stratovolcano located in Colombia. • The volcano lies on the Andean Volcanic Belt which is produced by the subduction of the Nazca plate beneath the South American continental plate. • The volcano has been active for 150‚000 years – the eruption in 1985 is the most recent after being dormant for 69 years. • Eruption: • A rise in seismic activity was first noticed in late 1984‚ and by September 1985 people were warned an eruption was likely‚ with
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The Nevado Del Ruiz: 1985 eruption Location? Nevado del Ruiz is a volcano in Colombia‚ the northenmost and highest Colombian volcano‚ located at the in the northern most tip of the Andes in South America. Nevado Del Ruiz is a broad‚ glacier-covered volcano that covers more than 200 square kilometers. Has the volcano erupted before? In 1595 and 1845 summit eruptions melted snow and ice and produced mudflows that traveled tens of miles from the volcano‚ these mudflows were confined to the valleys
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The Volcanic Eruption of Nevado Del Ruiz Nevado Del Ruiz located in Central Colombia‚ is a broad‚ glacier covered volcano. A relatively small eruption caused a devastating mud flow that killed almost 25‚000 people in the town of Armero‚ marking one of the worst volcanic disasters in history. Sadly‚ this tragedy could have been easily avoided if clear warnings by volcanologists had been taken seriously. On November 13‚ 1985‚ Nevado Del Ruiz erupted and created a lahar. Surprisingly‚ not all the
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A hazard is a situation that poses a level of threat to life‚ health‚ property‚ or environment. There is a very big difference that helps prepare for a volcanic hazard and that is whether you are in a MEDC or a LEDC. In a MEDC monitoring volcanic zones and potential hazards is an option many LEDC’s don’t have. In Italy at Mt Etna they have Geochemical monitoring programs currently run by INGV which focus on the analysis of temporal changes‚ chemical changes and seismic activity. This option open
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“The hazards presented by volcanic and seismic events have the greatest impact on the world’s poorest people.” To what extent do you agree with this view? (40 marks) Volcanic and seismic events can take place all over the world and therefore both more economically developed countries (MEDCs) and less economically developed countries (LEDCs) can be affected. In the last 30 years there have been multiple examples of where volcanic and seismic events have had an impact on both MEDCs and LEDCs. Some
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Pablo Ruiz Picasso was born in Málaga‚ Spain on October 25‚ 1881 and lived until April 8‚ 1973. He was raised by his mother and father along with his two sisters. Even at a young age‚ Picasso’s artwork showed great potential. Enough to surprise and excite his father. “From the age of seven‚ Picasso received formal artistic training from his father in figure drawing and oil painting” (“Pablo Picasso Biography). Picasso’s father was an artist as well as a professor at the School of Crafts‚ where Picasso
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St. Lorenzo Ruiz St. Lorenzo Ruiz was a Filipino who lived in Binondo‚ Manila. He was born between the years 1600 -1610. His father was a Chinese while his mother was a Filipina. At a young age‚ he was already active in the church since he served as an altar boy in the Binondo Church. He was educated by the Dominican Friars and was given the title escribano or calligrapher since he had good penmanship. He had a family and he was married to a woman named Rosario. They had 3 children‚ 2 sons
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incredible modern artist‚ Alex Ruiz. We chose Vincent Van Gogh’s ‘Starry Night’‚ because we know a great deal of information about the painting‚ and its powerful significance in the art world. Our second artist of choice was Alex Ruiz‚ since we happened to find that he had created a digital painting‚ entitled ‘Starry Night’‚ depicting how the night sky had looked in his own personal perspective at the moment Van Gogh painted ‘Starry Night’. After further reading about Alex Ruiz‚ we were deeply inspired
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Características del gerente del siglo XXI Indice 1. Introducción 2. Características del gerente del siglo XXI 3. Conclusiones 4. Referencias 1. Introducción El siglo XX se caracterizó por un gran desarrollo tecnológico e industrial‚ y consecuentemente‚ por la consolidación de la administración. A principios de este siglo surge la administración científica‚ siendo Frederick Winslow Taylor su iniciador; de ahí en adelante‚ multitud de autores se dedican al estudio de esta disciplina. En la administración
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G.R. No. L-45459 March 13‚ 1937 GREGORIO AGLIPAY‚ petitioner‚ vs. JUAN RUIZ‚ respondent. 1. Mons. Gregorio Aglipay‚ Supreme Head of the Philippine Independent Church‚ seeks the issuance from this court of a writ of prohibition to prevent the respondent Director of Posts from issuing and selling postage stamps commemorative of the Thirty-third International Eucharistic Congress. 2. the Director of Posts: a. announced in the dailies of Manila that he would order the issues of postage stamps
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