The 1902 eruption of Mount Pelée was a volcanic eruption on the island of Martinique in the Lesser Antilles Volcanic Arc of the eastern Caribbean, which...
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Éruption volcanique à la Martinique, released in the United States as The Eruption of Mount Pelee and in Britain as The Terrible Eruption of Mount Pelée...
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Mount Pelée or Mont Pelée (/pəˈleɪ/ pə-LAY; French: Montagne Pelée, [mɔ̃taɲ pəle]; Antillean Creole: Montann Pèlé), meaning "bald mountain" or "peeled...
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in the case of Santiaguito. The 1902 eruption of Mount Pelée (VEI-4) is the first described case of a Peléan eruption; the term is derived from the name...
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The lava spine that developed after the 1902 eruption of Mount Pelée Mount Lamington following the devastating 1951 eruption 2016 eruption of Mount Sinabung...
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Pyroclastic flow (redirect from Pyroclastic Eruption)
glow red in the dark is nuée ardente (French, "burning cloud"); this was notably used to describe the disastrous 1902 eruption of Mount Pelée on Martinique...
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St. Helens, Mount Pelée, and Mount Etna. Most eruptions are caused by the immediate decompression of a magma chamber near the flanks of the volcano. During...
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Armero tragedy (redirect from 1985 eruption of Nevado del Ruiz)
of debris from entire houses. This was the second-deadliest volcanic disaster of the 20th century, surpassed only by the 1902 eruption of Mount Pelée...
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D, an eruption of Mount Pelée resulted in the decimation of the island's population. Around 400 A.D, the Arawaks returned and repopulated the island...
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"Benchmarks: May 8, 1902: The deadly eruption of Mount Pelée". Earth Magazine. April 7, 2015. Archived from the original on February 16, 2021. Retrieved...
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Louis Mouttet (category Deaths in volcanic eruptions)
wife in the eruption of Mount Pelee on 8 May 1902, which completely destroyed the city of St. Pierre. Born into a French Huguenot farming family of modest...
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eruptions by human death toll. Lists of disasters List of volcanic eruption deaths List of natural disasters by death toll List of volcanic eruptions...
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Ludger Sylbaris (category People from the French West Indies)
man who was one of the survivors in the city of Saint-Pierre on the Caribbean island of Martinique during the 1902 eruption of Mount Pelée on May 8, 1902...
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Saint-Pierre, Martinique (redirect from Paris of the Caribbean)
which "inundated the city, destroying all houses" and killed 9,000 people. The town was again destroyed in 1902, when the volcano Mount Pelée erupted, killing...
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Plinian eruptions or Vesuvian eruptions are volcanic eruptions marked by their similarity to the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, which destroyed the ancient...
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Guinea). Prior to the eruption, Mount Lamington was not recognized as a volcano due to the absence of historically-recorded eruptions and dense vegetation...
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Stratovolcano (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the United States Geological Survey)
during the 1902 eruption of Mount Pelée on the island of Martinique in the Caribbean. During March and April 1982, El Chichón in the State of Chiapas...
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La Soufrière (Saint Vincent) (redirect from Mount Soufriere)
eruption of 6 May 1902 killed 1,680 people, just hours before the eruption of Mount Pelée on Martinique that killed 29,000. On St. Vincent, a further 600...
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The eruption of Mount Pelée on May 8, 1902 generated a pyroclastic flows, also known as nuées ardentes (Fr: burning clouds) cloud famous for having destroyed...
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list of notable people who died as a result of injuries sustained during a volcanic eruption. List of volcanic eruptions by death toll Lists of people...
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detailing the factual 1902 volcanic eruption of Mount Pelée on Martinique, which killed 30,000 people in five minutes by pyroclastic flow. It marked the second...
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volcanically active moon of planet Saturn Mount Pelée Pele (volcano) Peléan eruption Plinian eruption "How volcanoes work – The eruption model (QuickTime movie)"...
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Hugo (film) (category Films that won the Best Sound Editing Academy Award)
for the screen by John Logan. Based on Brian Selznick's 2007 book The Invention of Hugo Cabret, it tells the story of a boy who lives alone in the Gare...
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Martinique (redirect from Paris of the Lesser Antilles)
2013 Scarth, Alwyn (2002). La catastrophe : the eruption of Mount Pelee, the worst volcanic eruption of the twentieth century. Oxford: Oxford University...
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The Invention of Hugo Cabret is a children's historical fiction book written and illustrated by Brian Selznick and published by Scholastic. The hardcover...
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re-enactments of current events), made between The Eruption of Mount Pelee and The Coronation of Edward VII. It is currently presumed lost. List of lost films...
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Omayra Sánchez (category Deaths in volcanic eruptions)
second-deadliest volcanic disaster of the 20th century (surpassed only by the 1902 eruption of Mount Pelée). It was the fourth-deadliest eruption recorded since 1500...
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Georges Méliès (category Knights of the Legion of Honour)
He led many technical and narrative developments in the early days of cinema, primarily in the fantasy and science fiction genres. Méliès rose to prominence...
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Volcanic tsunami (section Volcanic eruptions)
eruption of Mount Ruang, the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa, the 1902 eruption of Mount Pelée and the 1994 eruption of Rabaul Volcano. Tsunamis generated by underwater...
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of the Human Body (2012) Errors of Youth (1978) The Eruption of Mount Pelee (1902) The Eruption of Mount St. Helens! (1980) Es geschah am hellichten Tag...
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