Mt Merepi - Pyro flows

Question 1

Pyroclastic flows

Answer 1

• flows travelled 3km down heavily populated mountainside
• 353 lives taken
• displaced over 300k from homes
  LR impact - form hard solidified rock (tuff), v hard to clear as made of hardened ash - causes problems for locals

Question 2

Ash

Answer 2

• fell 30km from eruption point
• travelled 6km into sky
• villages over 15km from volcano submerged in 30cm of ash