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Large lahars hundreds of metres wide and tens of metres deep can flow several tens of metres per second (22 mph or more), much too fast for people to outrun. [9] On steep slopes, lahar speeds can exceed 200 kilometres per hour (120 mph). [9] A lahar can cause catastrophic destruction along a potential path of more than 300 kilometres (190 mi). [10]
In Lahar Nagar Panchayat, Female Sex Ratio is of 886 against state average of 931. [2] According to the 2001 India census, [3] Lahar had a population of 28,253. Males constitute 54% of the population and females 46%. Lahar has an average literacy rate of 61%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 70%, and female literacy ...
Pages in category "Lahars" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Proceeding in three major waves, this lahar was 30 m (100 ft) deep, moved at 12 m/s (39 ft/s; 27 mph), and lasted ten to twenty minutes. Traveling at about six m/s (20 ft/s; 13 mph), the second lahar lasted thirty minutes and was followed by smaller pulses. [31] A third major pulse brought the lahar's duration to roughly two hours.
In 1991, damage to crops and property was estimated at $374 million (or $711 million today), to which continuing lahar floods added a further $69 million (or $127 million today) in 1992. In total, 42 percent of the cropland around the volcano was affected by more lahar floods, dealing a severe blow to the agricultural economy in the region. [21]
Lahar's name was written syllabically as d La-ḫa-ar or d La-ḫar, or logographically as d U 8, "ewe." [2] The name is derived from Akkadian laḫru, also meaning "ewe."[1] The same logogram, d U 8, could also be used to write the name of another deity associated with herding, Šunidug ("his hand is good") [3] as well as of his father Ga'u (Gayu), the shepherd of Sin, [2] and of the mother ...
The new seating of the excavated church is a modest contrast to its pre-lahar-incident amphitheater-style seating. In 1995, the lahar flow that entered Bacolor submerged the town in lahar mud, mostly between three to six meters (9.8 to 19.7 ft) thick, but burying even tall structures in the town's lower parts like the Church of Our Lady of Lourdes of Cabetican and Bacolor's famous San ...
Detailed map of Mount Rainier's summit and northeast slope showing upper perimeter of Osceola collapse amphitheater (hachured line) The Osceola Mudflow, also known as the Osceola Lahar, was a debris flow and lahar in the U.S. state of Washington that descended from the summit and northeast slope of Mount Rainier, a volcano in the Cascade Range during a period of eruptions about 5,600 years ago.