Monserrat Volcanic Eruption LEDC 1995-1997
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- Responses?
- Immediate
- Citizens fled but about 2000 people left on island.
- UK provided £17million of emergency aid. (Monserrat is overseas territory of the UK).
- Nearly 8000 of 12'000 population fled.
- Long term
- Haunted citizens.
- Shelters were built for evacuees.
- Children/elders evacuated.
- Services in the North of the island were expanded.
- Immediate
- Effects?
- Short term
- 19 people killed and 100's made homeless.
- Schools, airport, hospitals, vegetation and farmland = destroyed.
- Large areas were covered with volcanic material. The city of Plymouth was buried under 12m of mud and ash!
- Lava, ash and rocks down valley.
- Long term
- Exclusion zone in South was 2/3 of country.
- Parents/family members go abroad to Europe to find jobs/livelihoods.
- Volcanic ash form eruption has improved soil fertility.
- Tourism on island has increases as people want to visit the volcano.
- Short term
- Where and when?
- Soufriere Hills volcano.
- Small island in the Caribbean Sea.
- April 1995-25th June 1997.
- Causes?
- Molten lava melts and works its way up.
- Large pyroclastic flow after eruption.
- 4.5 million cubic meters of rocks and gas released in large eruption.
- Monserrat Volcanic Eruption LEDC 1995-1997
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