Volcanoes
By: Temujin Tesvich
Introduction
Hollywood movies. Hollywood movies are said to be one of the best genres of movies around the world. It is best known for many of its particular sub genres and one of them happen to be disaster movies. It can be for all types of natural disasters. But I will be focusing Volcanoes in particular. I will be talking about it throughout the article.
Location of Volcanoes
The bad thing about the movie "Volcano" is that their are barely or even no volcanoes that are located in Los Angeles and to prove a point is that there is a Volcano in the middle of the streets in LA. Most of the Volcanoes are in California.
How do volcanoes erupt?
How?
Anatomy of a volcano
How do Volcanoes affect us humans and others
Fast-moving lava can kill people and falling ash can make it hard for them to breathe. They can also die from famine, fires and earthquakes which can be related to volcanoes. People can lose their possessions as volcanoes can destroy houses, roads and fields.
Lava can kill plants and animals too. The Mount St Helens volcano in 1980 killed an estimated 24,000 animals including 11,000 hares, 6,000 deer, 300 bobcats, 200 black bears and 15 mountain lions.
Volcanoes can change the weather. They can cause rain, thunder and lightning. Volcanoes can also have long-term effects on the climate, making the world cooler.
For sure, one of the most dangerous effects of an earthquake is a Tsunami. Tsunamis are giant waves that can cause floods and in some cases may reach up to 100 feet in height. These deadly waves strike a great distance from the epicentre. Tsunamis often result from sub-sea faulting of ocean floor sending seismic shocks through the water and creating large waves of low amplitude but of long period, moving at 500-700 mph.
Tsunami caused by earthquakes or volcanoes underwater
Case study
How does the movie "Volcano" differ from reality
What was wrong?
Premise: What if a volcano appeared and started erupting under a populated area like Los Angeles?
A greater problem is that they should have all died of massive bleeding in the lungs before they even had a chance to try to block the flow of lava. Ash is basically fine shards of glass. No one was wearing masks, so they were basically inhaling glass. For hours. Not one cough. No sneezing. No gasping.
They got the effects and how the volcano erupts right because its obvious how volcanoes erupt because of the magma flying out
Conclusion
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