• Question: do you think that another volcaino will errupt again? why do you think this?

    Asked by del243 to Laura, Lily, Mark, Paul, Sarah on 21 Jun 2010 in Categories: .
    • Photo: Paul Roche

      Paul Roche answered on 21 Jun 2010:

      Volcanoes are erupting on Earth all th etime – it is one ogf the ways that the Earth loses energy and slowly cools down. It’s a very natural process, but sometime sit can have dramatic effects for humans – not just disrupting air travel, but killing many people (just thing about Vesuvius…). But it is an essential geological process.

    • Photo: Mark Roberts

      Mark Roberts answered on 21 Jun 2010:

      Yes it probably will as the centre of the earth is quite volatile so there will be more volcanoes – indeed there are many volcanoes erupting all the time you only hear about a few as only a few effect us!

    • Photo: Lily Asquith

      Lily Asquith answered on 21 Jun 2010:

      Yes. I think there are lots of active volcanoes on this planet, so the chances of another eruption is 100%.

    • Photo: Sarah Bardsley

      Sarah Bardsley answered on 21 Jun 2010:

      The nature of our planet and the fact its made up of enormous plates below the surface which move around (albeit very slowly) means that more volcanoes will erupt. We heard a lot about the one in Iceland because it affected our airports and stopped us flying for a while but many others around the world are active and erupt frequently. We just don’t hear about them so often because they don’t affect us.

    • Photo: Laura Maliszewski

      Laura Maliszewski answered on 21 Jun 2010:

      I have no idea, but I hope not, the first one was very disruptive!

      The earth is still very much a dynamic planet as things like this remind us!

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