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Mount Pelee Volcanic Hazards
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LAVA INTRUSIONS
 
Mode of action: combustion, wrenching, burial, pressure
Distance: (average) 0.1-1 km
Temperature : 750 - 1500 °C
Speed : (average): < 1 m/s

Fires, explosions

Total destruction of human infrastructures and vegetation
 
On humans: Severe burns 
 
 
Lava Intrusions Hazard map for Mt Pelee Volcano 
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