List of settlements abandoned after the 1997 Soufrière Hills eruption
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The following is a List of settlements abandoned after the eruption of the Soufrière Hills
volcano on the Caribbean
island of Montserrat
which took place between 1995 and 1998. Most of these settlements were badly affected or inundated by pyroclastic flow
s between June and December 1997:
Soufrière Hills
The Soufrière Hills volcano is an active complex stratovolcano with many lava domes forming its summit on the Caribbean island of Montserrat. After a long period of dormancy, it became active in 1995, and has continued to erupt ever since...
volcano on the Caribbean
Caribbean
The Caribbean is a crescent-shaped group of islands more than 2,000 miles long separating the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, to the west and south, from the Atlantic Ocean, to the east and north...
island of Montserrat
Montserrat
Montserrat is a British overseas territory located in the Leeward Islands, part of the chain of islands called the Lesser Antilles in the West Indies. This island measures approximately long and wide, giving of coastline...
which took place between 1995 and 1998. Most of these settlements were badly affected or inundated by pyroclastic flow
Pyroclastic flow
A pyroclastic flow is a fast-moving current of superheated gas and rock , which reaches speeds moving away from a volcano of up to 700 km/h . The flows normally hug the ground and travel downhill, or spread laterally under gravity...
s between June and December 1997:
Destroyed settlements
- Bethel
- Bramble
- Dyers
- Fairfield
- Farm
- Farrell's
- Farrell's Yard
- Galway's Estate
- Harris
- Hermitage
- Long Ground
- Morris's
- PlymouthPlymouth, MontserratPlymouth is the de jure capital of the island of Montserrat, an overseas territory of the United Kingdom located in the Leeward Island chain of the Lesser Antilles, West Indies. The town was overwhelmed by volcanic eruptions starting in the 1990s and was abandoned...
- the capital of Montserrat, initially evacuated in August 1995; abandoned and destroyed in 1997 - Saint Patrick's
- Soufrière
- Streatham
- Trants
- Trials
- White's
Evacuated settlements
- Amersham
- Amersham Estate
- Cork Hill
- Gages
- Lee's
- Molyneux
- North Olveston (since re-settled)
- Old Towne (since re-settled)
- Saint George's Hill
- Salem (since re-settled)
- Week's
- Woodlands (since re-settled)