Volcanos are one of the most spectacular and beautiful features of the physical world on the other hand, great volcanic eruption in historic times have brought death and destruction to many areas around the world. Erupting volcanos have claimed many of lives. There has been volcanos erupting since the beginning of time. According to the article “How Many Active Volcanos Are There” by Tom Simkin, “There was roughly 60 volcanic eruptions each year in the 1900’s; and 154 have erupted in the full decade of 1990 and 1999; about 550 have had historical documented eruptions, and some 1300 have erupted in the Holocene” (Simkin 58). These …show more content…
Every time a volcano erupts it shoots out hot ash and smoke, this ash and smoke can cause respiratory problems it could cause severe burning and it covers roads, houses, and forest with ash. Which could cause people to go homeless, because the ash is very hard to clean off and it could cause an ash slide which is tightly packed and could cause trouble breathing. According to the article “How Many Active Volcanos Are There” by Tom Simkins there is about 50-70 eruptions each year, now think about how many villages, crops, people, and forests were destroyed and died.
How do volcanos affect us and our environment? Volcanos affect us and our environment in some good ways and some bad ones, which is good because it balances out the bad gets replaced with the good. Volcanos aren’t actually that bad I mean the view is beautiful if you’re not to close, and it gives us rich soil, and many other things. I guess to sum this all up volcanos affect us in some good ways and some