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Papau New Guinea Blog 5

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                                                   In Papau New Guinea their are 94 volcanoes, Most of the  volcanos are located in New Guinea with 28, though New Britain Island has 27 volcanoes. Their are several ways to avoid volcanic erutions, simply live in an area with no active volcanoes, around, and if you can't do that good bye, just kidding. Ways to avoid the danger of Mr. Volcanoes  is forecasting, when the volcanoes will erupt Earthquake recording using seismographs,    Studying picture of volcanoes taken from satellite in space, or aircraft, or from ground. Making measurements of gases coming out of volcanoes, esc An using volcanic alert codes whose levels of alert constantly change non erupt volcano green, active volcanoes orange yellow. Papau New Guinea Hazard maps show 4 volcanoes to be above normal ...

Papau New Guinea blog 4

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  Papau New Guinea is highly vulnerable,  to natural hazards particularly earthquakes, volcanos, and tsunamis. Papau New Guinea has 77 volcanoes, of which 20 are active.  It is one of the most seismatically complex regions on average with over 100 earthqaukes, each year with a magnitude of 5 and over. The country is also prone to Tsunamis having encountered over 90 Tsunamis since 1768. Thousands of lives were lost in the devastating 1998 tsunami, and close to 10,000 people were displaced from their homes. Papau New Guinea accounted for 25 percent of all natural disasters that occured in pacific that occured between 1950 and 2008.     Preparing for Tsunamis, and Earthquakes in Papau New Guinea, Geoscience Australia will develop a Probabilistic Tsunami Hazard Assessment for PNG to understand the frequency and likelihood of tsunamis occurring, so local emergency managers can plan and reduce the threat of tsunamis in their communities. Using this assessment, high ri...

Papau New Guinea Blog #3

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  Papau New Guinea is located in the ring of fire at the collision point of several tectonic plates. Papau New Guinea is one of the most disaster prone areas in the pacific accounting for 25 percent of all natural disasters in the Pacific. Papau New Guinea is ranked in the top 6 of countries in population exposed in Earthquke rank behind the Philippines, and Indonesia. Papau New Guinea experiences over 100 earthquakes every year with magnitude of over 5.  Papua New Guinea experiences a high rate of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, with 64 quakes of a magnitude of 6.0 or larger – eight of which were 7.0 or larger – hitting within 250km  in the past 50 years. The island nation lies along the “Ring of Fire”, a major area in the basin of the Pacific Ocean where most of the world’s seismic activity occurs. Solutions to the earthquake problem of Papau New Guinea, it is regoized that houses, buildings and infrastructure are not built to wisthand Earthquakes in Papau New Guine...