Calculated tephra fall contours for the three thresholds used for assessing exposure: 0.5, 10 and 50 mm, for Menengai volcano in Kenya (left) and Fogo volcano in Cabo Verde (right) for the three return periods defined by GFDRR: 1000 years (upper), 500 years (upper middle), 250 years (lower middle), and for a VEI 4 simulation that impacts large population centres (lower)
Menengai & Fogo, Cape Verde, Kenya, 2024
Figure 6 in: Jenkins, S. F., Mee, K., Engwell, S. L., Loughlin, S. C., Faria, B. V. E., Yirgu, G., ... & Crummy, J. (2024). Assessing volcanic hazard and exposure in a data poor context: Case study for Ethiopia, Kenya, and Cabo Verde. Progress in Disaster Science, 23, 100350.
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Jenkins, S. F., Mee, K., Engwell, S. L., Loughlin, S. C., Faria, B. V. E., Yirgu, G., ... & Crummy, J. (2024). Assessing volcanic hazard and exposure in a data poor context: Case study for Ethiopia, Kenya, and Cabo Verde. Progress in Disaster Science, 23, 100350.Map Set
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pdisas.2024.100350
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