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 Blog Week 5 Chile's Volcanic Activity CREDIT : ABC NEWS https://abcnews.go.com/International/chile-volcanic-eruption-sends-lava-shooting-sky/story?id=29345770 According to Chile Culture, they states, "About 500 volcanoes are potentially active, 36 are currently active and 44 have erupted at least once since 1820. The most historically active volcanoes in the north of Chile are: Lascar, San Pedro, Guallatiri and Isluga." This is interesting because California only has 7 volcanoes. Being that 90% of all volcanic activity occurs in the ring of fire, this is why Chile has had 15 volcanic eruptions in the last 20 years. Getting onto my next point, there are many ways that the citizens of Chile prepare for this. Starting off with a disaster supply kit, the U.S. Embassy in Chile helps me to explain that the citizens in Chile should follow a list of all of the recommendations to have in their own D.I.Y. disaster supply kit. Such things can include water, batteries, food, and muc

 WEEK 3     Credit : European Southern Observatory information@eso.org. “Seismic Hazard in Chile.” Www.Eso.Org, https://www.eso.org/public/images/earthquake-01_cc/. Accessed 10 Sept. 2023.    Chile has many earthquakes. sometimes even a few in a day! they have a lot of activity going on in their country when talking about earthquakes and this is because they are on top of the South American plate, the Nazca plate moves eastwards into this plate at about 6.6 centimeters a year! This causes large and small earthquakes to happen all the time. Even today, September 10th, at 11:55 am, there was an earthquake with the magnitude of 4.6! However, that is their normal, I would say to think about your decision on traveling there if your are afraid of earthquakes.       On another thought, one of the many ways to help the magnitudes of these earthquakes on a daily basis not have such a great affect on the people, they have come up with extreme building techniques. As a company named Verisk, which