The
Soufrière Hills volcano is an
active, complex
stratovolcano with many
lava domes forming its summit, on the
Caribbean island of
Montserrat. After a long period of
dormancy, the Soufrière Hills volcano became active in 1995, and has continued to erupt ever since. Its eruptions have rendered more than half of Montserrat uninhabitable, destroying the capital city,
Plymouth, and causing widespread evacuations: about two thirds of the population have left the island.