In 1995, the Soufriere Hills Volcano on Montserrat erupted, destroying the island’s capital city of Plymouth and causing the capital to be declared an exclusion zone. Photos attest to the suddenness ...

In 1997, the Soufrière Hills volcano erupted on the Caribbean island of Montserrat, sending massive pyroclastic flows racing toward the capital city of Plymouth. Within hours, large parts of the city ...

PLYMOUTH, MI — Brian Patrick Murphy of Plymouth set off to hike the 13,000-foot-tall Mauna Kea volcano in the Hawaiian Islands on Dec. 5, 2007, hours before the National Weather Service would issue a ...

Montserrat's Soufriere Hills volcano hurled rocks and lava toward the abandoned capital of Plymouth and spewed ash 10,000 feet into the air on Dec. 26, according to the Montserrat Volcano Observatory.

The Caribbean town of Plymouth lies frozen in the ash of a devastating volcano. In the 1990s, an entire city in the Caribbean vanished under ash. Plymouth, Montserrat, once vibrant, now lies frozen in ...

(via PBS Terra) In the 1990s, an entire city in the Caribbean vanished under ash. Plymouth, Montserrat, once vibrant, now lies frozen in time—buried by a volcano still simmering beneath the surface.

The Soufriere Hills Volcano in southern Montserrat erupted on Wednesday, hurling hot rocks half a mile into the air and setting several buildings ablaze in the abandoned capital of Plymouth, according ...