The word Volcano that is Italian or Spanish by origin and Italian vulcano, from Spanish volcán, ultimately from Latin Volcanus Vulcan, dates from 1613. According to the Merriam Webster Online Dictionary, the definition is as follows:

A hill or mountain composed wholly or in part of the ejected material; something of explosively violent potential. The definition is not such scaring as the real process itself.

Few tools might be invented against such a big monster. If we take into consideration the statistics that are given on Prevention Web, in volcano data and statistics department, and it is really worth paying attention as graphically it is as follows:

Top 10 volcano reported - Killed
Colombia -1985-21,800
Cameroon-1986-1,746
Philippines-1991-640
Zaire/Congo Dem Rep-2002-200
Indonesia -1981-192
Mexico-1982-100
United States-1980-90
Philippines-1993-79
Indonesia-1994-58
Japan-1991-43

Top 10 volcano reported - Economic damages

United States-1980-1,500,000
Colombia-1985-1,000,000
Papua New Guinea-1994-400,000
Philippines-1991-211,000
Indonesia-1982-160,000
Ecuador-2006-150,000
Indonesia-1983-149,690
Mexico-1982-117,000
Indonesia-1983-25,500
Iceland-1996-16,500

The given data proves that additional sources should be invented in order to have less loss of humans and also economic damage.

Seems specialists work on this issue and in the article by Jenny Haworth on Prevention Web, reveals that a SCOT who invented a remote control helicopter can be used to predict where volcanic eruptions will take place. For this initiative it has won a $100,000 (£67,000) award.

According to a physicist, Dr Andrew McGonigle, the helicopter, which flies over the crater of volcanoes, can help save millions of lives.The new machine tests for carbon dioxide in the air above the volcano. Before, measuring the gases from volcanoes to predict their eruption was dangerous.

But now the helicopter can be operated miles from the site that means that there is no threat that some people will be damaged while this process. Dr McGonigle, 35, who was awarded a Laureate of the 2008 Rolex Awards for Enterprise. He is the person who was chosen, with four others, Andrew Muir, Elsa Zaldívar, from nearly 1,500 applicants in 127 countries.Other winners

Source:
http://www.preventionweb.net/english/hazards/statistics/?hid=72
http://news.scotsman.com/uk/Helicopter-that-can-predict-.4702884.jp
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/volcano

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