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e) catastrophic volcanic eruptions

Mount Pelee is an active volcano in the northern French overseas department of Martinique in the Caribbean. It is a tall, conical volcano composed of highly viscous magma and volcanic ash deposits and lava. It has an altitude of 1,397 meters.

The eruption of May 8, 1902 Mount Pelee is sadly remembered as "the worst volcanic disaster of the twentieth century" completely destroyed the city of Saint-Pierre, killing more than 30,000 dead, almost all of asphyxiation.

is said that only three people survived, including a prisoner named Louis-Auguste Cyparis or Sylbaris Ludger. Imprisoned for taking part in a fight with fatal outcome, Cyparis / Sylbaris was held in a windowless cell, which only aired for one open opening in the opposite direction of the volcano. Four days after the tragedy, the prisoner's screams alerted relief. Had serious burns in the extremities and back.

He said the eruption took place at breakfast time and at one point made an intense heat and hot air mixed with fine ash. Undoubtedly saved his life because his clothes did not burn and did not breathe the superheated air. The prisoner, pardoned, eventually earning a living in the celebrated Barnum's circus where he presented as "the man who survived the Day of Judgement."

it be known, was the first black to achieve celebrity in the entertainment world during the era of segregation. In 1792 and 1851 eruptions occurred oldest of which has been reported.

La Montagne Pelee volcano has created a typology: the type pelean volcanoes where magmas form viscous reach needles (pins) in the amount of pressure of lava; to fracture these pythons sudden departure occurs outside of "burning clouds", which consist of large pyroclastic lava that wiped out all the surroundings of the volcano. In other cases they can cause huge explosions completely destroying the volcano.

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