The Montserrat island is located. in the Caribbean Sea and is covered by a dense tropical forest A day in April 1995, the local people heard. started the longest-lasting sequence of volcanic eruptions a hoise and

of history CBelow the crust there are molten rocks, that in the boundery between two plates reach the surfaceThis is what happened Montserrat)

In the Montserrat eruption, the volcano collapsed under its own weight, causing a pyroclastic flow instead of lava flows. This eyrodastic flow was al speed of 120 Km/h a Temperature of 600°C and at a

Soon the air was filled of smoke and dust. By the end of the first day almost 2.000 island, people left the

After Two June 1997 large year after the first explosions, chunks of the lava dome odlapsed and generated another Pyroclastic flow, that Killed people homeless 19 people and made hundreds of

By 2000, after the disailer, the island was Zone and people who lived near to the north of the island, because it declared an exlusion the volcano had to move was safer.

More than 9000 people deciled to abroad -до Now a lot of people live in shelter, a low-security prison a new pourpose that was converted for its Do not include the following keywords: weight, forest, eruption, sequence
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