explosivity in a sentence
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- More than likely, he added, such eruptions would register up to a 3 on the Volcanic Explosivity Index used to measure the force of such blasts.
- The first notable eruption from Mount Cleveland was a Volcanic Explosivity Index ( VEI ) 3 Vulcanian eruption that occurred between June 10 and June 13, 1944.
- The latest eruption from Black Peak less than 4, 000 years ago produced an explosive eruption with a Volcanic Explosivity Index of 6 that created a caldera.
- It is a line of volcanic escoria cones of fissural nature lying on a west-northwest-east-southeast orientation consisting of basaltic volcanism of low explosivity.
- That large explosion has resulted in Tacan?being classified with a volcanic explosivity index of 4 by the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History's Global Volcanism Program.
- The band is still considered to be one of the most eccentric and controversial bands in former Yugoslav music, with music, stage, energy, and explosivity.
- The eruption had a Volcanic Explosivity Index of 3, and involved a central vent eruption, radial fissure eruption, explosive eruption, lava flows, and a lava lake eruption.
- All of the eruptions listed below have produced at least of lava and tephra; for explosive eruptions, this corresponds to a Volcanic Explosivity Index ( or VEI ) of 8.
- Individual eruptions were often enormous, sometimes up to thousands of cubic kilometres in volume, giving them a Volcanic Explosivity Index of 8, comparable to Yellowstone Caldera and Lake Toba eruptions.
- "There is a wide range of explosivity, " said geologist Willie Scott of the U . S . Geological Survey . " It's that uncertainty that makes us cautious ."