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Soufriere Hills in
Montserrat
- Description
- June 25th, 1997
- Large
- 4.5 Million m3 of rocks
and ash released
- 19 Deaths and 7 Injured
- Montserrat is a
small island
- In the Caribbean sea
- Cause
- Montserrat is on a
destructive plate margin
- The Atlantic plate was forced
under the Caribbean plate
- Magma rose through weak
points under the hills
- Forming pools of magma
- Rocks above collapsed
- Opening the vent and causing the eruption
- Impacts
- Primary
- Large areas covered with
volcanic material
- Capital city -
Plymouth
- Buried by 12m of
mud and ash
- 20 villages and 2/3 of
houses destroyed
- By pyroclastic flows
- Services destroyed
- Schools
- Hospitals
- The airport
- The port
- Vegetation and
farmland
destroyed
- Deaths
- 19
- Injured
- 7
- Secondary
- Fires destroyed buildings
- Police HQ
- Government offices
- Central petrol station
- Tourism reduced
- Businesses ruined
- Economy disrupted
- Population decline
- 8000/12000 inhabitants left
- Volcanic ash improved
fertility of soil
- Tourism increased from the volcano's popularity
- Responses
- Long term
- Risk map made
- Exclusion zone put in place
- UK provided further money
- £41
- For development of the North
of the island
- New docks
- New airport
- New houses
- Volcano Observatory built
- To predict future eruptions
- Immediate
- Evacuation
- From the South to
the North
- Shelters built for evacuees
- Temporary infrastructure
- Roads
- Electricity supplies
- Emergency aid provided by the UK
- £17 million
- Montserrat -
overseas territory
of the UK
- Local emergency service
- Search and rescue