Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 13, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba Saturday free september a13 sitting on a Chain of volcanoes eruptions pose a risk throughout Caribbean by Shelley Emil Reg con news service Miami since Italy mount Vesuvius destroyed Pompeii in 79 people have been fascinated by the unt Amable Force of today its the so Friere Hills vol Cano on the British Island of Montserrat in the Caribbean that has the world on the Edge of its scientists predict the Volcano could soon erupt violently enough to Over take the entire llby18 Kilometres but Montserrat is not alone in its its just one in a string of islands that have been formed by volcanic and that Are in danger Day experiencing the same kind of destruction that has been wrought across while its not always easy to pre dict what nature will Volcano watchers expect another Caribbean eruption within 30 to 40 but no one can say where or How big the explosion might worse things have happened in the Caribbean than whats happening in and they could happen said John a geologist at the cascades Volcano Observatory in the Caribbean sits on an Active Chain of volcanoes and these volcanoes Are going to erupt every now and in a fireball from mount Pelee on the Island of Martinique wiped out people in a matter of Days the so Friere Volcano on the Island of Vincent killed that Volcano also erupted twice in the what has changed is not the fre Quency of volcanic but what has been put in the Way of Volca Ewert populations have grown in the Caribbean and More people have vacation Homes so the risk is at 30 million the a yogic we wqtk9 a Volcano similar to flies currently threatens the total destruction of the Island of 1883the Isla fid a Katea in Indonesia blew the blast was heard Kilometres 1980mourt Helens erupted after lying dormant Adf 123 1999gataclysmie eruption destroyed mount Pinatubo in the subduction Voi canoes form where the earths plates be plate May slide beneath causing surface Rock on the Tower plate to source our violent Earth caribbeans population is 10 times greater than it was in both petrify ing and the worlds volcanoes Are a sure sign that the earths surface is on the the earths outer layer is divided into some 18 called tectonic which Knock up against each other As they slowly shift these collisions Between plates can cause both Earth quakes and volcanic slab of land Caribbean islands sit atop the Caribbean tectonic a slab of land that bumps up against the North american moving eastward at about centimetres per the Caribbean produces a magnitude 8 or greater earthquake every few Cen a magnitude 8 earthquake on the Richter scale is classified As a great capable of tremendous the most powerful Reading on record was produced by a 1906 earthquake off the coast of Ecuador and matched by a 1933 earthquake off in the past 400 volcanoes worldwide have killed More than Davis and since there Are Between 250 and 300 Active Volca noes throughout the world its not unusual for there to be a rash of eruptions at any one most the Popocatepetl at has erupted 56 Kilometres Southeast of Mexico in the san Cristobal Volcano also has spewing Ash on the nearby cities of Al Viejo and in the Kilauea Volcano buried a 700year old Temple in lava earlier this but perhaps in the most dra Matic display of the so Friere Hills Volcano in Montserrat has destroyed the Colo Nial capital of and has forced two thirds of the islands residents to the crisis intensified in late when a fiery Avalanche of rocks and Gas razed seven villages and killed 19 Montserrat Volcano is the first Active one in the Region in nearly two dormant for nearly 400 the Volcano sprung to life nearly two years it had been slowly building like a Bonus september 19 september 1 ticket Lloyd 12197 Susan Van 02936 Grant 00705 George Ann 11009 Jean Jack 03173 Gary 11788 Tammy 13259 Harold 14083 07357 06358 William Ann 14709 Cathy 13907 Gary and 01231 Iris 03914 Paul 03889 12501 plus 0 h a n d of Tell Cau Over 20 years 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