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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]
Pages in category "Lahars" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
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 ...
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.
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The Serbian Wikipedia (Serbian: Википедија на српском језику, Vikipedija na srpskom jeziku) is the Serbian-language version of the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia. Created on 16 February 2003, it reached its 100,000th article on 20 November 2009 before getting to another milestone with the 200,000th article on 6 July ...
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 ...
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: . It doesn't need snow or ice: a lake of water can cause lahars.