The Soufrière Hills volcano is an energetic, complex stratovolcano with many lava domes forming its summit, on the Caribbean island of Montserrat. After an extended duration of dormancy, the Soufrière Hills volcano have become active in 1995, and has endured to erupt ever due to the fact that. Its eruptions have rendered extra than 1/2 of Montserrat uninhabitable, destroying the capital metropolis, Plymouth, and inflicting massive evacuations: about two thirds of the population have left the island.
The volcano is called for the French word soufrière, that means "sulphur outlet". It's far andesitic in nature and the modern-day sample of interest includes periods of lava dome boom, punctuated through brief episodes of dome fall apart which result in pyroclastic flows, ash venting, and explosive eruption. The volcano is monitored by way of the Montserrat Volcano Observatory.
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