Mount merapi - LIDC

Question 1

What was the VEI?

Answer 1

4

Question 2

Number of deaths?

Answer 2

367

Question 3

How many were evacuated?

Answer 3

350,000

Question 4

What were the environmental impacts?

Answer 4

Increased fertility of soil
Pyroclastic flows killed crops

Question 5

How was the economy affected?

Answer 5

Food prices increased
Mineral farming increased

Question 6

Modify against vulnerability

Answer 6

• Monitors predicted lahars
• Monitored seismic activity
• Hazard zoning

Question 7

Modify against loss

Answer 7

• Aid from Australia - 1 million
• Cleared river channel to reduce chance of lahars