Talk:Lahar
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I did point that the lahars killed 23,001 people in Colombia not so long ago. That's outside of the US.
If anyone else knows of towns outside the US that have lahar warning systems, please add them to the article. -- hike395
- Added Mount Ruapehu. -- hike395
[edit] isn't lahar an icelandic word?
Isn't lahar an icelandic word? It's my understading that a lahar can only occur when a volcano melts snow or a glacier (neither of which Indonesia has much of!). Otherwise, it's just a plain old mudslide. --radiojon 09:08, 2003 Sep 6 (UTC)
- The USGS says that it is an Indonesian word: [1]. It doesn't need snow or ice: a lake of water can cause lahars. They have them in Indonesia, see [2], which states:
- As the 1982-1983 eruption waned a crater lake began to form. The presence of the lake, high rainfall, and the large volume of exposed pyroclastic material on the volcano have made the hazard associated with secondary lahars very high.
- Dunno, but I used to call everything solid out from crater lahar at my childhood, wether it was lahar or lava, we called it lahar in informal Indonesian.Aditthegrat 15:55, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] New Flow in New Zealand, 25 September 2007
It should be noted a new lahar flow has been widely reported in New Zealand on 25 September 2007. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.58.234.53 (talk) 13:17, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
