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Disaster-Risk Mapping

Friday, October 23rd, 2015

Ashcloud Apocalypse Uses Threat of a Mega Volcano to Teach Disaster-Risk Mapping to Students

October 23, 2015 — Giant cracks appear in the streets of London. Lava shoots from the fissures. Cars topple near Big Ben. Fires break out. “First signs of a mega eruption,” announces a promotional video for Ashcloud Apocalypse, an online disaster-risk mapping exercise that thousands of students in the United Kingdom and around the world