Volcanic activity. But these eruptions should not be seen as destructive attacks on certain places or the people that live in them. They have nothing to do with even the country that hosts them. They occur in specific regions because of much larger-scale processes originating deep within the Earth. Most volcanic eruptions go unnoticed. These margins form due to convection in the underlying mantle, which causes hot, less dense molten material, called magma, to rise to the surface.
As it forces its way through the lithospheric plate, magma breaks the outer shell. Lava, the surface-equivalent of magma, fills the crack and pushes the broken pieces in opposite directions. Volcanism from this activity created Iceland. The country is located on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, which forms the seam between the Eurasian and North American plates. Iceland is one of the few places where this type of spreading centre pops above sea level. However, volcanism on Iceland also happens because of its location over a hot spot.
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Flowing hot lava can incinerate, bury and bulldoze things in its path but at least is usually moving slowly enough for humans to get out of its way. For a start there's hot gas and rock called pyroclastic flows or surges that tumble down the slopes — this is what buried the city of Pompeii when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD. Then there are "volcanic bombs" made of rock that can fly out of the vent and an eruption cloud made of ash and gas that shoots up into the air.
Exploding volcanoes also lead to mud slides called lahars and tsunami. Earthquakes, landslides and flooding from volcanoes melting surrounding glaciers are some events associated with eruption. A 10th of the world's population lives within the potential footprint of volcanoes, with more than million people living within km of active volcanoes.
According to recent research analysing fatalities from volcanic activity between and , about people a year are killed by volcanic activity. Most of these people were killed within a 10 km radius but deaths still occur up to km away. Ballistics or volcanic bombs are the biggest immediate danger. Pyroclastic flows and fast moving avalanches of hot rock, ash, and gas are the most dominant threat between 5 and 15 kilometres from the volcano.
Fine falling ash can cause respiratory problems, as can the gases released during explosions, in particular carbon dioxide and sulfur dioxide, Professor Cas says.
Sulfur dioxide also contributes to acid rain and volcanic emissions also affect the weather and climate. While carbon dioxide has a warming effect, the main effect of the volcanic emissions — is a cooling effect , Dr Cas says. This is because of ash, and sulphur dioxide reacting with water vapour in the air , leading to the albedo effect — or reflection of the Sun's heat.
Professor Cas says this is especially the case with supervolcanoes — whose major eruptions release in the order of 40 to cubic kilometres of molten rock. Aircraft engines are so hot they melt the ash back into fragments of magma that clog up the exit vents.
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