Case Studies For Volcanoes (GCSE AQA)

CASE STUDY ON VOLCANOES

MONTSERRAT

• Country - Monserrat, Caribbean
• Date - Eruptions between 1995 - 1997
• Cause - Montserrat is on a destructive boundary between the South American Plate and the Caribbean Plate. Soufriere Hills is a composite volcano.

Short term effects / impacts

• Pyroclastic flows burned building and trees
• Ash buried over two - thirds of the island
• Population evacuated to the north of the island

Medium term effects / secondary effects

• 60% of housing was destroyed
• Lack of clean water and sewage facilities
• No hospitals and few schools remained open

Long term effects

• 8000…