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  2. Lahar - Wikipedia

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    In particular, although lahars are typically associated with the effects of volcanic activity, lahars can occur even without any current volcanic activity, as long as the conditions are right to cause the collapse and movement of mud originating from existing volcanic ash deposits. Snow and glaciers can melt during periods of mild to hot weather.

  3. Volcanic hazard - Wikipedia

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    The thicker and/or more fast-moving a lahar, the more potential to destroy things in its path, thus making it more dangerous than a slower and/or more diluted lahar. Lahars and mudflows can damage buildings, wildlife and cars and can prove difficult to escape once caught in them. The lahars can coat objects, wash objects away and can knock ...

  4. Eastern Ruapehu Lahar Alarm and Warning System - Wikipedia

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    Fresh lahar channels are visible on Ruapehu's eastern slopes, 27 March 2007. The Eastern Ruapehu Lahar Alarm and Warning System (ERLAWS) is a lahar warning system that was installed on Mount Ruapehu, New Zealand following volcanic eruptions in 1995–1996. The system successfully detected and warned of an imminent lahar in March 2007.

  5. Mount Rainier Volcano Lahar Warning System - Wikipedia

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    The Puyallup River Valley is at greatest risk. Tens of thousands of people live in areas that may have as little as 40 minutes to as much as three hours to move to safety once a large lahar is detected, so the system is robust, warnings are disseminated promptly and widely, and people in harm's way are taught how to respond to the warnings and ...

  6. 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo - Wikipedia

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    The cost to agriculture of eruption effects was estimated to be 1.5 billion pesos. Many farmers near Pinatubo began growing quick-ripening crops such as peanuts, cassava, and sweet potatoes, which could be harvested before the threat of lahar floods during the late summer rainy season. [21]

  7. Armero tragedy - Wikipedia

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    Estimates show that up to 500,000 people living in the Combeima, Chinchiná, Coello-Toche, and Guali valleys are at risk, with 100,000 individuals being considered to be at high risk. [53] Lahars pose a threat to the nearby towns of Honda, Mariquita, Chinchiná, Ambalema, Herveo, Villa Hermosa, Puerto Salgar and La Dorada. [54]

  8. Lahar siren in downtown Puyallup accidentally goes off. Here ...

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    The lahar-warning system at the station at 311 W. Pioneer went off about 10 a.m. The Puyallup Police Department posted on Twitter about 10:30 a.m. that the siren was a false alarm and that it was ...

  9. Decade Volcanoes - Wikipedia

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    A volcano may be designated a Decade Volcano if it exhibits more than one volcanic hazard (people living near the Decade Volcanoes may experience tephra fall, pyroclastic flows, lava flows, lahars, volcanic edifice instability and lava dome collapse); shows recent geological activity; is located in a densely populated area (eruptions at any of ...