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Mount Pelee means Bald mountain

Stratovolcano

Located in Martinique.

Coordinates: 14.82°N / -61.17°W

Elevation: 1397 m / 4,583 ft

Volume: 2'592'968.43m³

Crater has a diameter of 1,150 m

Crater has a altitude of 1,170 m.

Description: Around it is mostly forest and a town (Saint Pierre). Only the days of it’s eruption was it covered in ash.

Eruptions

First eruption: About 300,000 years ago

Most famous eruption: 1902 May 7th

Last eruption: 1932

Duration of eruption: First eruptions no one knows (no pictures either)

Most famous eruption: April 25th to May 7th.

Latest eruption: 1929-1932

Eruption type: Plinian for 1902 and Pelèan eruption for 1932

First eruption type unknown

General Description

1902

  • 29,000-30,000 dead, 2-3 alive
  • VEI of 4
  • Completely destroying the town of Saint Pierre
  • Was known as the most devastating eruption in the 20th century
  • Lava covered the entire northern half of the island

1932

  • No casualties or deaths
  • Not as bad as the 1902
  • The lava had just followed the road so not to much damage
  • VEI of 3
  • Damages were limited to the destruction of a road between St. Pierre and Prêcheur, and the loss of a few livestock

*Again, not much is known about the first eruption.

The survivors

One was a man who was put in jail underground. He was later released because they had thought god had let him live.

Another was a girl. The girl had been traveling up the mountain early in the morning. She had to go to this tourist attraction called the “corkscrew.” This was pretty much the parasitic cone. But when she looked in she saw all the smoke emitting form it. She also said she saw bubbling red stuff when she looked. She stated she saw three people get engulfed who were trying to get out of the crater. As she ran away she saw the explosion and people running. She went to the shore and got onto her brothers boat and headed to the cave she used to play in. On the way she did get a few burns from the flying stones form the volcano. As the lava hit the water the water rose and she fell unconscious. People had found her 2 miles off shore.

Citations

http://www.volcanodiscovery.com/pelee.html http://www.zazzle.com/mount_pelee_volcano_martinique_postcard-239065548555927410 http://www.gweaver.net/techhigh/projects/period1_2/Mt.%20Pelee/damage_cost%20page.html https://thegeosphere.pbworks.com/w/page/24714218/1902%20Mount%20Pelee-Martinique,%20Caribbean http://www.geology.sdsu.edu/how_volcanoes_work/Pelee.htmlhttp://www.mount-pelee.com/en/1929-1932-eruption/

Mount Pelée

Kai Miller

1/30/12

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