VOLCANIC ERRUPTION - MEDC - Mount Etna

Location (and plate boundary)

Sicily - above the convergent plate margin between the African Plate and the Eurasian Plate

Population around area

over 300,000 (one of the largest cities in Sicily)

Primary responses

Evacuations

Secondary responses

• Rebuilding of infrastructure

• People moving back into their homes

Primary effects

• Clouds of ash

• Pyroclastic flows

Secondary effects

affecting air quality, transportation, agriculture, and tourism - chances of getting lung cancer increased due to ash in the air