Curtis+Volcano

Welcome to Curtis's Volcano Page. My Volcano is called Soufirere Hills. =Map of Volcano (Soufirere Hills)=

A Short Introduction for Soufirere Hills-

The Soufrière Hills volcano is an very active, volcano. Lava dome cover the volcano. It is a stratovolcano and it is located in the Caribbean Island. It covers about more than 200 m of the land. When the volcano erupts there is a lot of lava dome, lava stones, etc. There was an big eruption during 1995-1999 and it destroyed almost more than half of the island. Many houses were destroyed.

The boundaries of S oufrière Hills are marked by faults. It is a oceanic-continental convergent boundary. It is between the Atlantic and the Caribbean plates.

Stoufrière Hills is just one ordinary big volcano. It is not near with other volcanoes. It is just part of the Caribbean island.

Updates Of Soufirere Hills
 * Date || Update on Volcano ||
 * Sept.13,2012 || On September 6th the volcano had ash cloud that rose up in the sky. This happened on September 4th. There was a small pyroclastic flow that traveled 11.5 km E down the Tar River Valley. The flow lasted 75 seconds, generted on ash cloud that rose 900-1,200 m and drifted W over Plymouth, and had an extensibbe fine-grained surge ||
 * Sept.27,2012 || No New Activity... ||
 * Oct.11,2012 || No New Activity... ||
 * Oct. 18,2012 || No New Activity... ||
 * Oct.25,2012 || No New Activity... ||
 * Nov.1,2012 || No New Activity... ||
 * Nov.7,2012 || No New Activity... ||
 * Nov.15,2012 || No New Activity... ||
 * Jan. 30,2013 || No New Activity... ||
 * Feb 22. 2013 || On February 15 MVO reported that Soufriere Hills had some lava dome and was at a low level. There was lots of sulfur dioxide gas flux. The seismic network recorded one rockfall and a volcano earthquake ||
 * Mar 11. 2013 || No New Activity... ||
 * Mar 14. 2013 || No New Activity... ||
 * Mar 27. 2013 || No New Activity ... ||
 * Mar 31. 2013 || No New Activity... ||
 * Apr 10. 2013 || No New Activity... ||
 * Apr 29. 2013 || During April 29 MVO reported that there was a low level of lava dome at Soufriere hills. Helicopters pilots still coudln't find good views of the lava dome for over a month and the pilots thought the lava dome was gone. The Hazard Level is 2 ||
 * May 21 2013 || No New Activity... ||

