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decided to evacuate, erring on the side of caution. The volcano erupted on August 30, 1976, but much less severely than predicted by the Allègre side. There were no fatalities and no significant damage, except for the large cost of the evacuation.
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Significant seismic activity in 1976 led to a mass evacuation of the island's 72,000 residents. There was a bitter, and well-publicized, controversy between scientists
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traveled to the abandoned town of Basse-Terre to find a peasant who had refused to leave his home on the slopes of the volcano. His journey is recorded in the film
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on whether evacuation should occur. Allègre held that inhabitants should be evacuated, just in case, while Tazieff held that the
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in type. On February 8, 1843, an eruption of La Grande Soufrière caused by an earthquake killed over 5,000 people.
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Feuillard M.; Allege C.J.; Brandeis G.; Gaulon R.; Le Mouel J.L.; Mercier J.C.; Pozzi J.P.; Semet M.P. (1983).
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OVSG : Observatoire volcanologique et sismologique de Guadeloupe
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Parc National de la Guadeloupe, manager of the top of the Soufrière
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Scheffel, Richard L.; Wernet, Susan J., eds. (1980).
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While the island was deserted, the German filmmaker
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Index

La Soufrière (volcano)
Soufrière Hills
Soufrière Volcanic Center

Elevation
Prominence
Listing
North America isolated peak
Coordinates
16°02′40.56″N 61°39′51.12″W / 16.0446000°N 61.6642000°W / 16.0446000; -61.6642000
La Grande Soufrière is located in Guadeloupe
Guadeloupe
French West Indies
Mountain type
Stratovolcano
arc
belt
Lesser Antilles Volcanic Arc
Last eruption
[laɡʁɑ̃dsufʁijɛʁ]
sulfur
Antillean Creole
stratovolcano
French
Basse-Terre
Guadeloupe
Lesser Antilles
magmatic
lava dome
phreatic

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