Question: What do you think is the type of energy that emerges while volcanoes are erupting? What unit is used to measure them?

Asked by meliscetin to Rhian on 6 Mar 2015.

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  1. Photo: Rhian MearaRhian Meara
    answered on 6 Mar 2015:

    that is a hard question! 🙂

    during eruptions, there is a lot of energy released. you have sound energy (the sound of the explosions) and heat energy (from the lava) and kinetic energy (all the material which is erupting and moving through the air and along the ground).

    The easiest of those to measure is the heat energy which you can measure in
    ËšC or ËšF. Some lava flows can measure over 1200ËšC when they are erupting!

    I hope that helps?! 🙂

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