Marissa

Montserrat By Marissa

Montserrat is located in the West Indies. It is 12 miles long and 7 miles wide. The volcano there erupted in 1995 but the main explosion was on June, 25th 1997. 23 were killed and many fled to England. The eruption made 1/3rd or the island uninhabitable. To this day the volcano still is still having small eruptions of ash. Montserrat is a composite volcano which is a steep cone shaped volcano and occur at destructive plate boundaries. It is a subduction volcano and is at the atlantic plate under the Caribbean plate.