Volcanoes & Earthquakes

Mt. St. Helens & Choctaw OK

By: Aidan Smith &
Giselle Cantiller
Mount St. Helens
 Located in Skamania County, Washington
Longitude: 45n
Latitude: 122w
 Is an active Stratovolcano
Stratovolcano-formed and layered by
dry lava, tephra & volcano ash.
Common along subduction zones
Mount St. Helens
 Closest to the Pacific plate
which is a convergent
boundary
Geologic Degrees and
Hazards
 Gas- acid rain
 Lahars- blocks streams
 Landslides- makes land slide.
 Lava Flows- burns object in way
 Pyroclastic Flows- melts snow
& burns forests
 Tephra- blows chunks of rock
everywhere
Volcanoes
 Volcanoes- a weak spot in the Earth’s crust in
which magma comes to the surface
Types: Sheild Volcanoes, Cinder Cones,
Stravolcanoes, Super Volcanoes, Submarine Volcanoes,
& Sub Glacial Volcanoes
Causes: Volcanoes form by magma being pushed up
to the Earth’s surface. As this happens an earthquakes
occurs and the ground below rises. Then an Volcano
forms
Earthquake
Hazards
 Liquefaction- makes hard dirt to wet mud
 Tsunamis- makes huge wave come over to land
 Local Soil Conditions- makes hard packed soil shake
more violently
 Fires- burns everything
 Caused by movement in Earth that pushes
against surface causing ground to break.
Earthquakes
Results of Earthquakes
 Waves seen on ground
 Destruction in Buildings
 Possibly nothing
 Falling objects
Safety Precautions
 Stay calm
 Stay inside, near a desk and
cover head
 If outside go in open space and
sit down
 Stay away from any thing that
may fall on you or hurt you.
Choctaw, OK
 Longitude: 35n
 Latitude: 97w
 Site is prone for small
earthquakes
 Latest earthquake, Dec. 7, 09
magnitude: 3.5
 Closest to the Pacific Plate
Convergent boundary
Plate Tectonics
Plate Tectonics- The
theory in which the Earth
is divided in plates and
the plates move over the
Lithosphere.
 Plate Tectonics
shape the Earth by
plates being moved
around Earth caused
by continental drift.
Interesting Facts
 Mt. St. Helens is best known for its eruption on
May 18, 1980.
Recorded most deadliest eruption in the USA
Caused avalanche
Lasted 9 hours
Destroyed over 2,000,000 trees
Created huge Crater in Volcano
 Choctaw, OK has been getting recent
Earthquakes since October 27, 2009
Bibliography
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Saint_Helens
 http://www.infoplease.com/atlas/latitude-
longitude.html
 http://www.infc.ulst.ac.uk/computing/stepup/volc
anoes/different_types_of_volcanoes.htm
 http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recente
qsww/Quakes/us2009pxbd.php
 http://answers.ask.com/Science/Nature/how_do
_volcanoes_form
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