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Earthquakes, lava flows, acid rain, pyroclastic flows, widespread ash fall including effects on aircraft that use jet engines, in some cases they can cause floods since the heat can melt nearby glaciers, such as the recent eruption in Iceland.....

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Damages of volcanic eruptions:

1) Volcanic ashes and gases cause air pollution. People and animals are killed as they breathe difficultly.

2) Lava flows and destroy houses and farmland or even bury the whole city.

3)Lava flows burn forest and destroy the ecosystem.

4)Plane engines are jamed by volcanic ashes and crash

5)When the rainwater mix with volcanic ashes,mudflows are formed, they can bury the whole town or village

6) People are injured or killed

Advantages of volcanic eruptions:

1)Volcanic ashes make the soil rich and form fertile farmland

2)relief features created by volcanic eruptions are very beautiful and attract torists

3) Many minerals are found in volcanic regions, such as gold and diamonds

4) The steam and heat in some volcanic regions provide geothermal power.It is a rich renewable source of energy.

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Volcanic eruptions happen when dissolved gases are trapped in magma. When pressure is released, it explodes or spews out.

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more likely death but some people do survive

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  1. Destroying places 2. killing people 3.Aches 4.Burns
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What plate boundary can cause volcanoes?

What type of boundaries cause volcanoes? Divergent and transform fault boundaries cause volcanoes because they separate. Convergent boundaries cause earthquakes because they collide with other plates.


What kind of plates cause volcanoes?

Plates do not cause volcanoes. Volcanoes generally form at the boundaries between plates. They form at convergent and divergent boundaries.


Do plates pulling apart cause volcanoes?

no but coliding plates create volcanoes


What do subducting plates cause?

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How can volcanoes cause melted rock?

Volcanoes do not cause rocks to melt, they are just the exit where melted rock come to the earths surface.


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The amount of gas and the pressure in the volcanoes.


Do volcanoes cause earth quakes?

Sometimes they do.


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How do volcanoes change the envirement?

It can cause death's, it can kill crops, and homes. Volcanoes cause a type of smog and fill the air with deadly smoke, and ash


What are the primary dangers of volcanoes and earthquakes and earthquakes?

*volcanoes Earthquakes and vOlcanoes can cause much damage among an area if it's shaken to pieces.


How high does it have to be on the Richter scale to cause a volcano eruption?

Earthquakes do not cause volcanoes. However, magma moving to the surface rapidly can produce tremors. Volcanoes can cause earthquakes, but not vise-versa.


Do you cause volcanoes?

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