to subsidence up-to 80 cm a day, but the subsidence has since
slowed and it is now around 25 cm per day. The subsidence is in the shape of a bowl and it is greatest
in the centre of the caldera, about 50 m, but smaller to the edges.
o Crustal deformation: Extensive ground deformation Major was recorded while the dyke was forming,
signalling the progression of the dyke and subsidence towards
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Snorrason, Director General of the
IMO. The new
supercomputer can perform 4,000 trillion calculations per second, which is more
than half a million calculations per second for every person on the planet. It
will handle state of the art weather models with more than 6 million lines of
code –the Mars Curiosity Rover was built on 5 million- which will produce high
resolution weather predictions
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are sourced from
two subglacial lakes, formed due to persistent geothermal activity beneath
Vatnajökull. This activity is apparent on the ice-surface as a circular depression,
known as an ice cauldron. On average, the two neighbouring cauldrons drain
every one to two years, producing floods ranging in maximum discharge from
hundreds to occasionally thousands of cubic metres per second. When
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Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 , in March 2015 in Sendai,
the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction has been used to promote one
of the seven global targets put forward: Substantially reduce global disaster mortality by 2030, aiming to lower the
average per 100,000
global mortality rate in the decade 2020–2030 compared to the period 2005–2015;Substantially reduce the number of affected
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