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The same area of the volcano that began erupting on Wednesday also erupted in December and lasted until May. Kilauea volcano summit eruption is in full swing. What was once a cooling lava lake is now a new fissure eruption!
The Nevado del Ruiz volcano killed more than 20, people in Colombia when it erupted in From rockslides to earthquakes to lava, volcanic eruptions pose many hazards. One common threat is the release of sulfur dioxide gas from deep underground. Sulfur dioxide can irritate the airways, and in high enough concentrations, it can suffocate. When mixed with water vapor and carbon dioxide, it creates a hazy volcanic fog, a. The next, more visible risk is ash. Falling ash can accumulate on roofs and collapse structures as well.
Jagged ash particles irritate the lungs and over the long term can lead to a disease known as silicosis. And ash can destroy crops. The deadliest eruption on record, the eruption of the Tambora volcano in Indonesia in , killed 92, people, largely by starvation.
Earthquakes associated with eruptions can also knock over buildings and trigger deadly landslides. While some lava flows inch forward, others can reach speeds up to 40 mph. Perhaps the scariest consequence of an eruption is a combination of all of the above in a phenomenon known as pyroclastic flow , a fast-moving mix of lava, rock, ash, and toxic gas.
This cascading torrent of earth can destroy anything in its path at speeds up to mph , which was observed when Mount St. Helens erupted in When Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines erupted in in the second-largest volcanic eruption in the 20th century, it injected 20 million tons of sulfur dioxide and ash 12 miles up into the stratosphere. These particles and aerosols spread all over the world and scattered incoming sunlight. Scientists found that global temperatures cooled by 0. The eruption is a vivid example of how a single event can ripple throughout the planet.
But not every volcano can nudge the thermostat. But scientists are studying volcanoes in case humanity does need to deliberately cool the planet in the face of catastrophic climate change, an emerging field known as geoengineering. Though most of the volcanoes are in sparsely populated areas, their ash plumes and toxic gas emissions can spread for hundreds of miles. Despite the potential hazards, researchers say we know alarmingly little about many threatening volcanoes in the United States.
Lawmakers have proposed creating a National Volcano Early Warning and Monitoring System to fill in these gaps, but the bill did not pass. Scientists say the volcano is capable of an eruption so powerful, it could eject more than 1, cubic kilometers of earth. And it can erupt again. Its last eruption was , years ago, before humans walked the earth, and was thousands of times more powerful than an average volcanic eruption, based on the geologic record.
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