El+Chichon+Megan+Kwak

**El Chichon, Megan Kwak** **T****ype of Volcano:** Stratovolcano

**Geographic Location:** Northwestern Chiapas, Mexico

 **Type of plate boundary:** Cocos plate off of the coast of mexico

**Name, distance, and population of nearest major city (cities):** The closest city is Tapachula it is the capital city of Chiapas, the population is 189,991 people.

**Date of most recent eruption:** March 28 - April 4, 1982

**Date of most DESTRUCTIVE eruption:** March 28 - April 4, 1982 it killed over 2000 people.

**Predict when next eruption may occur:** The volcano would be able to occur at any time.

**Other event associated with the last eruption:** earthquakes had made this volcano erupt for the first time.

<span style="background-color: #f5f4f4; color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Major hazards to humans in the vicinity of this volcano:** The last eruption killed over 2000 people, and destroyed tons of towns and homes, so it's a very violent volcano and the hazards to humans being around it while it starts to erupt would not be good.

<span style="background-color: #f5f4f4; color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">**Summary:****You are the head of the USGS, What recommendations would you make to minimize the risk to the population?** <span style="background-color: #f5f4f4; color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;"> If I was the head of the USGS, I would make sure that there was not many houses and people living near the volcano, and I would also make sure that if it ever did erupt again that no one would be close enough to be severely injured. This volcano erupted in 1982 killed and injured thousands of people, So we need to make sure that we watch this volcano and warn people ahead of time so they can be out of the way when it decides to violently erupt.

<span style="background-color: #f5f4f4; color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">**Due Date for your wiki: April 26** <span style="background-color: #f5f4f4; color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">**Reflection:** <span style="background-color: #f5f4f4; color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;"> Read the other wikipages. Select three volcanoes and tell me __why__ you chose them. What are the similarities (3) and difference(s) (at least 1) between your volcano and the three you chose? <span style="background-color: #f5f4f4; color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">1) Arenal, Chelsea Romanchuk <span style="background-color: #f5f4f4; color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">similarities: <span style="background-color: #f5f4f4; color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">- both on cocus plate <span style="background-color: #f5f4f4; color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">- both could erupt at anytime <span style="background-color: #f5f4f4; color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">- both extremely dangerous <span style="background-color: #f5f4f4; color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">differences: <span style="background-color: #f5f4f4; color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">-In costa rica, mine is in Mexico <span style="background-color: #f5f4f4; color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">I chose this because I thought it looked interesting and I wanted to learn about it.

<span style="background-color: #f5f4f4; color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">2) Kelut, hannah <span style="background-color: #f5f4f4; color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">similarities: <span style="background-color: #f5f4f4; color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">-both could occur at anytime <span style="background-color: #f5f4f4; color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">- earthquakes made it erupt <span style="background-color: #f5f4f4; color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">-very dangerous <span style="background-color: #f5f4f4; color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">differences: <span style="background-color: #f5f4f4; color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">-erupted in 1990, mine was in 1982 <span style="background-color: #f5f4f4; color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">I chose this volcanoe because

<span style="background-color: #f5f4f4; color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">**Due date for reflection: May 1**

<span style="background-color: #f5f4f4; color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">**References:** <span style="background-color: #f5f4f4; color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">http://www.volcanolive.com/elchichon.html <span style="background-color: #f5f4f4; color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;"> http://www.google.ca/images <span style="background-color: #fbfaf9; color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;"> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Chich%C3%B3n