Inhoudsopgave
Welk type vulkanen zijn er?
Er zijn drie typen vulkanen die het meest voorkomen: de schildvulkaan, de stratovulkaan en de sintelkegel.
What type of eruption is Mount Pinatubo?
Pinatubo 1991. Mt. Pinatubo is a stratovolcano in the Philippines. June 12, 1991, it erupted, resulting in the second-largest eruption of the 20th century. The ash plume height reaching more than 40 km (28 mi) high and ejecting more than 10 km3 of magma, classifying it as plinian/ultra plinian eruption style and VEI 6 in eruption size.
What are the continuing hazards of Mount Pinatubo?
Continuing Hazards. The June 15, 1991, explosive eruption of Mount Pinatubo, Philippines, was the second largest volcanic eruption of this century and by far the largest eruption to affect a densely populated area. The eruption produced high-speed avalanches of hot ash and gas (pyroclastic flows), giant mudflows (lahars),…
What happened to Pinatubo?
Pinatubo was heavily eroded and obscured from view by dense forests which supported a population of several thousand indigenous Aetas . Pinatubo is most notorious for its VEI -6 eruption on June 15, 1991, the second-largest terrestrial eruption of the 20th century after the 1912 eruption of Novarupta in Alaska.
What is the age of Mount Pinatubo?
Mount Pinatubo Age of rock Between 635,000 ± 80,000 and 1.1 ± 0.09 Mountain type Stratovolcano Volcanic arc / belt Luzon Volcanic Arc Last eruption 1993
Hoe heet de vulkaan in Italië?
De vulkaan Stromboli, gelegen in de Middellandse Zee, circa zestig kilometer ten noorden van Sicilië, is een van de actiefste vulkanen van Italië, die al 2000 jaar uitbarst.
Hoe heet de vulkaan in Pompeii?
aan hun einde kwamen. Deze glasachtige fragmenten werden aangetroffen in de schedel van een slachtoffer van de historische uitbarsting van de vulkaan Vesuvius, in 79 na Chr., waarbij de steden Pompeï en Herculaneum werden verwoest.