Josh

**Volcano Assignment due Friday, June 1st:**
====Find a real life example of a type of volcano.==== ====Find your name on the right and post a picture with at least 5 pieces of information about your volcano.====

Include the type of volcano.
====Include the type of plate boundary the volcano exists on (divergent, convergent, hot spot...)==== ====Include which tectonic plates are involved with this volcano.====

Mount Merapi

 * Mount Merapi is located in Indonesia.
 * Mount Merapi had erupted twice in its history in 2006 and 2010.
 * In 2006 people of the area had to evacuate nearby cities twice and was hit by an earthquake killing a minimum of 5,000 and leaving hundreds of thousands without homes.
 * People were then asked again to evacuate because they were afraid from the earthquake the volcano would erupt. It did and killed 2 people.
 * Once again in 2010 there was another eruption.
 * In September people started to see white plumes rising 800 meters above the crater. Lava inflation was also rising per day.
 * By the end of all the eruptions the death toll was up to 353 by December.
 * It is 28km north of Yogyakarta.
 * It is 1700 meters above sea level.
 * Mount Merapi is a strato volcano. Has one hardened layer of lava, tephra and volcanic ash.
 * Mount Merapi is located in the subduction zone, where the Indo-Australian Plate is going under the Eurasian Plate.