Primary and Secondary Hazards

1. Primary and Secondary Hazards Primary = direct e.g. lava flow Secondary = indirect e.g. underwater volcanic eruption might cause a tsunami wave

2. What is a natural hazrd? • Something caused by nature that is harmful to people • Hurting them = injuries or death • Or damage to property costing money for repairs or in lost production.

3. Primary Volcanic hazard – Lava Flows

4. Primary Volcanic Hazards E16 volcano Iceland April 2010 – ash fall – grounded flights across Europe – airline industry lost over £1 billion

5. Primary Volcanic Hazards Lake Nyos – Cameroun, Africa – 1986 – 1800 deaths. CO2 was released from under the lake – people and animals suffocated in the dense gas that hugged the ground. Heimaey, Iceland 1973 – one rescuer died searching an evacuated house which was full of carbon dioxide. Laki, Iceland 1783 – Sulfur dioxide poison clouds reached Europe.

6. Primary Volcanic Hazards Pyroclastic Flows from volcanic eruptions can burn people instantly and turn them to stone – mainly from Destructive Plate Margin volcanoes like on Montserrat.

7. Secondary Volcanic Hazards Jokulhaups – glacial meltwater floods from eruptions under ice in Iceland. E.g. Grimsvotn volcano

8. Secondary Volcanic Hazards Laki – Iceland 1783 – ash smothered grass and crops – 10,000 died in the famine that followed.

9. Secondary Volcanic Hazards Volcanic lahars or mudflows. Heavy rain and ash causes mudflows down valleys. 22,000 died in Armero, Colombia after Nevada del Ruiz erupted in 1985. Biggest volcanic disaster death toll of 20th Century

10. Secondary Volcanic Hazards Massive landslide occurred with the eruption of Mount St. Helens, USA in 1980.