GCSE Geography AQA Montserrat Volcano Case Study
Case study of a volcano - Montserrat
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- Montserrat Volcano
- Effects
- Airport destroyed
- 19 died
- Tourism industry declined
- Over half of Montserrat was uninhabitable
- Quartz expelled from ash caused lung cancer
- Pyroclastic flow in 1997
- Responses
- Millions £ in aid from Britain - overseas territory
- Temporary shelters, food and blankets
- £200mill from Britain to restore electricity
- 12 000 population reduced to 3500
- Population structure affected - young stayed in new country
- Causes
- Lesser Antilles Island Arc
- Atlantic plate subducting under Carribean
- Composite volcano
- Destructive plate boundary
- First Erupted August 1995
- Monitoring
- Use seismometer
- mini events recorded
- Changes in shape
- sulphur dioxide emissions recorded
- Effects
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