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Major Soufrière Hills eruption, June 1997
A major eruption killed 19 people and rendered much of the island uninhabitable.
What happened
In June 1997, a major eruption killed 19 people and created an uninhabitable exclusion zone.[1]
Sources for this page
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Claim: Beginning in July 1995, volcanic domes in the Soufrière Hills began erupting after centuries of dormancy; a major eruption in June 1997 killed 19 people and rendered the southern two-thirds of Montserrat, including the capital Plymouth, an uninhabited exclusion zone, displacing roughly two-thirds of the island's population (mostly to the United Kingdom) by 2000 and reducing the resident population to fewer than 1,200 by 1997.
- Montserrat - History (Encyclopædia Britannica) link, Volcanic eruption section. Source record