Vanuatu: Mt. Ambae: Volcano, risk areas, infrastructure and settlements data from ProVention Consortium, 2003
Ambae, Vanuatu, 2005
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Asia and the Pacific (UN OCHA-ROAP) Information Management Unit. (2005). Vanuatu: Mt. Ambae Volcano, risk areas, infrastructure and settlements. UN OCHA-ROAP ROAP-VUT001-v1
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Map Data
Map ID 418 Hazard Process(es) Floods or jokulhaups; Lahars; Surges; Tephra fall; Vent-opening hazards Hazard Zone Presentation Hazard level-focused: All or most hazards are combined by hazard level on a main map panel Temporal Scale Crisis, or short-term, map (hours to decades) Spatial Scale Island Publication Format Unknown format Zonation Method(s) Derived/simplified from another map Zonation Model(s) Scenario(s) Considered No scenarios were discernable from the map Hazard Zone Label(s) Qualitative relative probability (e.g. high-medium-low) Probability Definition(s) Qualitative relative probability (e.g. high-medium-low) Purpose Situational awareness for federal/international government Audience International relief or aid groups (UN, etc.) Language(s) English Basemap(s) Simple or sketch map Basemap overlay(s) Street map Diemsionality Planimetric (2D or map) view Color Scheme Red to Green