Talk:Soufrière (volcano)

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As evidenced in Herzog's documentary film of the same name (La Soufriere), there were immense signs of an impending eruption in 1977 and the entire island was evacuated before what was seen as an impending disaster. In the film we see the entire island as a ghost town save for some scientists measuring sesmic activity and a handful of locals who have refused to leave, who see no reason to do so and who have accepted their own inevitable death as 'in god's hands'. The film leaves off as the days continue and nothing has happened. Eventually we are told people begin to wander back and take their previous post on the island. Now we know approximately two years later, an eruption did occur. I am just curious to how what was considered so imminent did in fact take much longer to occur and, from a more social/psychological perspective if the statement in the wikipedia article 'there were no casualities' in the 1979 eruption is in fact true. I would guess not. - joshua —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.45.10.116 (talk) 16:47, August 25, 2007 (UTC)