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Pros And Cons Of Government Fund For Monitoring Volcanoes

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Should we fund for monitoring Volcanoes?
Pro; Using government money to fund monitoring volcanoes is a fantastic idea to me. Although there is no way of preventing volcanoes from erupting there's a way to kind of have an idea when they are going to erupt to warn people. Which to me trying to save peoples lives is a good enough reason for government to spend money. Volcano monitoring has saved many lives. In the case of the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines, volcano monitoring had saved many people by telling them that they must evacuate. The united states military was based their at the time. Everyone was safe because of volcano monitoring. Although the eruption was not a huge eruption people would have died according to the USGS (United States Geological Survey). The USGS estimates that the efforts saved thousands of lives and prevented property losses of at least $250 million. The volcano monitoring for …show more content…

A paper published by NCR (Nature Scientific Reports) states that a lava bubble is expanding inside the Kikai Caldera. The Kikai Caldera a massive underwater volcano. More than 31 cubic kilometers of lava have pushed the seabed up around 2,000 feet, now the volcano’s peak is sitting only 98 feet below the ocean’s surface. The lava bubble is starting to build up large amounts of pressure. Japanese volcanologists say they have found evidence of a massive eruption at Kikai Caldera 7000 years ago, and another one 95,000 years ago. That may mean that their is going to be another one, and soon. Due to monitoring this volcano they have been able to know about when the volcano may erupt. They have also been able to tell what percent the volcano has of erupting, although it is only 1% of a catastrophic eruption it has the potential to kill 100 million people, says Volcanologist Yoshiyuki Tatsumi. Another case of positive volcano

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