| Description |
In the
20th century alone, more than 91,700 people were
killed by volcano hazards and a total of about 5.6 million people were
affected.
Despite the risk, people continue to be drawn to live and work in
volcanic hazard zones all around the world. This session will examine
advances in our understanding of the full suite of volcano hazards that
put these people at risk. These hazards include magmatic processes,
such as pyroclastic density currents, tephra fall, release of toxic
gases, and lava flows, as well as volcano-hydrologic processes (not
always occurring during eruptions), such as lahars, flank-collapse
debris avalanches, volcanic flooding and sedimentation hazards, and
volcanogenic tsunamis. Contributions to this session from field,
experimental, and numerical modeling studies are invited in the areas
of:
• Initiation mechanisms
• Process mechanics and characteristics
• Magnitude, frequency, and timing
• Detection, forecasting, and prediction methods |
