Langs is about half a mile ( kilometer ) from Chances Peak, Montserrat's highest mountain at 3, 000 feet, where the island's first recorded volcanic earthquake erupted Tuesday.
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On July 19, its first recorded volcanic earthquake exploded at southeastern Chances Peak, the highest mountain at 3, 000 feet which looms three miles from Plymouth, the capital.
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Langs is about half a mile from Chances Peak, Montserrat's highest mountain at 3, 000 feet ( 900 meters ), where the island's first recorded volcanic earthquake erupted Tuesday.
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Montserrat went on full alert Tuesday and called out its reserve defense force after its first recorded volcanic earthquake exploded at Chances Peak, the highest mountain on this 11-by-7-mile island.
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This 11-by-7-mile Caribbean island has been on full alert since July 18, when its first recorded volcanic earthquake exploded at southeastern Chances Peak, the highest mountain at 3, 000 feet.
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Geologists from the Caribbean Seismic Research Unit in Trinidad rushed to the scene, the first recorded volcanic earthquake on this 39-square-mile ( 100 square kilometer ) island formed by ancient volcanos.
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After four months of volcanic earthquakes, small phreatic eruptions began on 18 September 1943, breaking through a layer of highly metamorphosed rocks, before the first major explosion occurred on 27 December 1943.
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As a consequence of the 1717 volcanic earthquake event, which destroyed much of the parish, the construction of the church was delayed, with worked resuming on the main nave around September 1754.
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Langs is about half a mile ( a kilometer ) from Chances Peak, Montserrat's highest mountain at 3, 000 feet ( 900 meters ), where the island's first recorded volcanic earthquake erupted Tuesday.
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Montserrat's chief minister, meanwhile, was hoping to attract tourists with the steaming vents that began spurting two weeks ago, when the island of 10, 000 people experienced its first volcanic earthquake at Chances Peak.
