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No trip to Montserrat is complete without a visit to the Soufrière Hills Volcano. This active volcano erupted in 1995, transforming the island’s landscape and creating a fascinating blend of ...
Volcano Keeps Montserrat In Constant State of Alert. Caribbean Isle Is Full of Dramatic Reminders of Destruction. January 20, 2001. By Tim McDonald.
An international team of researchers has started to collect imaging data on the Soufriere Hills Volcano in Montserrat which erupts regularly since 1995. They're using the equivalent of a CAT scan ...
Volcano Menaces Montserrat. October 9, 2002 / 10:15 PM EDT / AP Dozens of residents abandoned their ash-covered homes Wednesday as a dome of lava expanded ominously on Montserrat's Soufriere ...
The Montserrat Volcano Observatory and Jack Boy Hill offer vistas overlooking the exclusion zone. The observatory also has an IMAX film and exhibits chronicling the volcanic eruption.
Montserrat's volcano spewed thick clouds of ash into the air Sunday, plunging several Caribbean islands into a gritty haze that forced the cancellation of dozens of flights and caused a car ...
The Soufriere Hills Volcano in southern Montserrat erupted on Wednesday, hurling hot rocks half a mile into the air and setting several buildings ablaze in the abandoned capital of Plymouth.
Montserrat's Soufriere Hills volcano blasted ash and steam into the air on Thursday, and authorities warned the Caribbean island could see heightened activity in coming days.
The volcano that destroyed Montserrat's capital in 1997 shot a cloud of ash more than five miles into the sky on Monday, and one of the island's chief scientists said the blast was "a warning call." ...
A Montserrat volcano shoots ash some nine miles into the sky, one of its most dramatic events since a devastating 1997 eruption that drove away half the Caribbean island's population.
The peak of the volcano that dominates the Caribbean island of Montserrat is rising every day as burning rock and ash pile up, making an eruption almost inevitable, officials said. “If the dome ...