Monserrat

• When did the eruption happen?

  25 June 1997
• What plate boundary did it happen at?

  A destructive plate boundary, The Atlantic plate slowly being forced underneath the Caribbean Plate
• Evacuations were to what 3 locations?

  USA , UK and Antigua (11,000 more than half of the population)
• The collapsing of the dome caused what?

  5 million cubic metres of Hot rocks and gases to spill down the sides of the volcano
• What did pyroclastic flows destroy?

  - 19 people killed

  - Two thirds of all houses were either buried by ash or flattened by rock

  - The airport

  - Farmland
• The Monserrat volcano observatory helped to do what?

  Predict the 1997 volcanic eruption
• How much Aid did the UK provide and what for ?

  £17 million for temporary buildings and water purification systems
• NGOs did what?


  NGOs such as the Red Cross, set up temporary schools and provided medical support
• What was implemented in the south of the island?

  Exclusion Zones and visits were severely restricted
• What did the USA and British provide?

  Troops to aid the process of evacuation
• What systems were provided ?


  Warning systems implemented to alert inhabitants such as sirens, speaker systems and media outlets
• What did the UK offer as a long term solution?

  UK Residency rights to all of those evacuating from the natural disaster (1998) and citizenship (2002) , which caused a top heavy structure in Monserrat as the young did not see any opportunities.
• UK Financial aid had exceeded what number since 1995?

  £420 million
• A redevelopment programme for what ?


  Houses, Schools, medical services, infrastructure, and agriculture. Aimed to be completed over a 3 year time period
• where on the island has remained an exclusion zone ?

  The South
• What business sector have they focused on developing?

  The tourism sector. Having the volcano itself being an attraction and was selected by national geographic adventure magazine as one of the Top 15 new trips of 2010.
• What does the newly developed fertile soil mean ?

  Will be used for cash crops such as cotton, although this could mean they become solely dependant of the product. Although they also export semi fished iron ($5.58 M) amongst other things.