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Living with volcanoes - Indonesia - EDC - Coggle Diagram
Living with volcanoes - Indonesia - EDC
Background
large number of active volcanoes
Indonesia has suffered more eruptions causing fatalities and damage to infrastructure than any other country
Located on tectonic plate boundaries
Tectonic setting
widespread subduction
The plate movements produce very high levels of seismicity and volcanicity
Large number of volcanoes are highly explosive
Merapi - 2010 - Erupted 3 times
Strato volcano - Eruptions in 2001 and 2006
Social Impacts
200,000 made homeless
350 people killed in total
Evacutation centres were overcroweded with poor sanitation
Schools were closed
VEI of 4
Economic Impacts
Damage to crops increasing prices
Planes were grounded - Closure of airport
Livestock was killed
Destroyed infrastructure such as buildings and power lines
Soil was damaged by pyroclastic flows
economic loss from agriculture was estimated at £13 million.
Political impacts
Improved prediction measures and education in evacuation procedures have been introduced.