Please enable JavaScript.
Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.
Living with volcanos Indonesia - Coggle Diagram
Living with volcanos Indonesia
Has around 400 volcanos of which 127 are active
3/4 of inhabitants live within 100km of a volcano that's erupted in last 10,000 years
eruptions which have caused fatalities 114 and eruptions causing damage to infrastructure 195 more than any other country in the world
most of landscape dominated by volcanic peaks
Tectonic setting
widespread subduction along 3000km of Indonesian archipelago
indonesian island arc formed by subduction of indo australian plate beneath eurasian plate
in the east continental shelf of northern australia in collsion with eurasian plate
these plate movements create high levels of seismicity and volcanicity
Merapi
Strato volcano
3000m almost in altitude
highly active
eruptions in 1994, 1997, 2001, 2006
pyroclastic flows created
3-4 VEI
Lava bombs
367 people killed in one eruption, 410,000 refugees 130 million m3 of material destroyed
Economic impacts
sulfur mining
avaiation issues due to ash clouds
vegetable prices increase due to crop destruction
schools closed
damage to infrastructure
social impacts
schools shut
multiple deaths
overcrowding of refuge areas so lack of sanitation
people made homeless
farmers lost livelihoods