Mount Merapi - 2010

• Indonesia, 28km north of Yogyakarta
• Subduction along 3,000km length

  Indo-Australian beneath Eurasian
• 26th October - 12 November 2010
• VEI 3.4
• 367 killed, 277 injured, 410,000 refugees, 200,000 homeless, 278,000 flee homes
• Heavy rain = Lahars
• Livestock killed by ash

  -2.5cm thick
• Sulphur dioxide blown to South America
• Smoke seen 300 days a year
• Seismographs since 1924 - 8 stations

  -Measures risk in 3 levels
• Geochemistry since 1984 - Co2, So2, N3 in air and water