EFFECTS
Some of the bad ways that volcanoes affect people are that houses, buildings, roads, and fields can get covered with ash. As long as you can get the ash off (especially if it is wet), your house may not collapse, but often the people leave because of the ash and are not around to continually clean off their roofs. If the ashfall is really heavy it can make it impossible to breathe.
Some of the bad ways that volcanoes affect people are that houses, buildings, roads, and fields can get covered with ash. As long as you can get the ash off (especially if it is wet), your house may not collapse, but often the people leave because of the ash and are not around to continually clean off their roofs. If the ashfall is really heavy it can make it impossible to breathe.
A lava flow is magma that comes out of the volcano which is, of course, flowing lava.
Lava flows are almost always too slow to run over people, but they can certainly run over houses, roads, and any other structures.
Lava flows are almost always too slow to run over people, but they can certainly run over houses, roads, and any other structures.
Some of the good ways that volcanoes affect people include producing spectacular scenery, and producing very rich soils for farming.
Long term exposure to volcanic fumes may increase existing respiratory problems. It may also cause headaches and fatigue in regularly healthy people.
The main effect on weather right near a volcano is that there is often a lot of rain, lightning, and thunder during an eruption.
This is because all the ash particles that are thrown up into the atmosphere, and are good at attracting/collecting water droplets.
Livestock and other mammals have been killed by lava flows, pyroclastic flows, tephra falls, atmospheric effects, and gases.
Mount St. Helens provides an example. The Washington Department of Game estimated that 11,000 Hare, 6,000 Deer, 5,200 Elk, 1,400 Coyotes, 300 Bobcats, 200 Black Bears, and 15 Mountain Lions died from the pyroclastic flows of the 1980 eruption.
Long term exposure to volcanic fumes may increase existing respiratory problems. It may also cause headaches and fatigue in regularly healthy people.
The main effect on weather right near a volcano is that there is often a lot of rain, lightning, and thunder during an eruption.
This is because all the ash particles that are thrown up into the atmosphere, and are good at attracting/collecting water droplets.
Livestock and other mammals have been killed by lava flows, pyroclastic flows, tephra falls, atmospheric effects, and gases.
Mount St. Helens provides an example. The Washington Department of Game estimated that 11,000 Hare, 6,000 Deer, 5,200 Elk, 1,400 Coyotes, 300 Bobcats, 200 Black Bears, and 15 Mountain Lions died from the pyroclastic flows of the 1980 eruption.