Volcanoes can cause destruction to valleys, towns, cities, and islands. It can wipe out an entire valley when one explodes. Tsunamis can be caused due to the eruption of volcanoes and earthquakes and they can cause huge waves that wash over anything they get near. It can cause the ground to shake and tremble which means the volcano is about to explode. People have died because they can not escape the area in time. Volcanoes can cause wildfires as well.
It can damage hundreds of acres, burning everything in the way of the lava. It can cause the water to boil because the magma is going into the water which makes it very hot. Trees will get damaged or burned and up hundreds of plants will be gone in seconds. It can damage the air with toxins and volcanic ash and it will get on everything for miles and miles. Did you know that volcano lava can burn the tires off your vehicles? It can also have fire balls flying through the air.
It causes fire damage to many things and it can leave nothing behind. Between the years of the 1700 to 1980, many volcanoes have killed thousands and thousands of people. In 1700, 20,000 were killed, in 1815, 80,000 to 90,000 people were killed, and in 1902, 30,000 people were killed. As years go by more and more were killed but people now will get out when there are signs that a volcano is going to explode and erupt. Volcano eruptions can cause can cost millions to billions of dollars of damage when there is anything at all left to salvage and rebuilding is even possible.
When they explode, there is nothing anyone can do to stop it because it is a beast of nature. There is nothing we have that can prevent it from happening. Volcanoes are all over the world and many are active and when they build enough pressure, they will explode. Many volcanoes will stay dormant for a long time. Sometimes they will lie dormant for hundreds of years and then become active again. Volcanoes are apart of nature like tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, and wildfires. When a volcano erupts it can cause water ways to flood and wildfire to spring up from the lava flow.
We have many volcanoes that are very near huge settlements of people. When one of these sleeping giants decides to erupt, the destruction can be devastating. The ash from some of them alone could be enough to cloud parts of or the entire earth and cause global damage to the air and wreak havoc on the agricultural production of the world. It has happened before many years ago and it could very easily happen again.
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