Argumentative Essay On Volcano And Earthquake

The government should spend more money on volcano and earthquake research, because unstoppable natural disasters are around the world. Volcanoes and earthquakes can not be stopped, or prevented. However, people at monitoring stations can predict them and warn the people, but we can’t do that without knowing when they are going to happen. It is natural for people to die, but in mass amounts and us knowing we could’ve saved them all is very bad. My three points are the average amount of natural disasters in the United States, the damage they can do, and the way technology has helped us before.

The United States has many volcanoes and earthquakes spread across the country. All together, there are 169 active volcanoes, and 54 are a very high threat to surrounding people. A lot of these volcanoes have actively erupted before, and supposedly will soon. Seeing as though volcanoes are highly dangerous because of their lava, they also have many other features that can harm us in the long run. Many earthquakes happen in the United States, and many of them have been very

Volcanoes can block out the sun causing a ‘winter’, as we saw in June of 1816; the explosion in Indonesia, around the world, caused half a foot of snow in America. This same eruption also killed agriculture all around the world, leading to famine and killing even more people. To add to that, the eruption caused the cholera epidemic, killing millions of people around the globe. The San Francisco earthquake of 1906, happened along the San Andreas fault line in California, but was felt as far as Oregon and the middle of Nevada. The shaking lasted about a minute, and killed about 900 people from the earthquake itself and the fires following it. As shown, both volcanoes and earthquakes are very deadly, and caused plenty of deaths not only by themselves, but also in the events occurring after the original