Montserrat's chief minister, meanwhile, was hoping to attract tourists with the steaming vents that began spurting two weeks ago, when this island of 10, 000 people experienced its first volcanic earthquake at Chances Peak.
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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 ( 17-by-10 kilometer ) island.
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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 12, 000 people experienced its first volcanic earthquake at Chances Peak.
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They are to help a four-man team from the Caribbean Seismic Research Unit, who reported they were worried about an unusual pattern in a swarm of four volcanic earthquakes and three eruptions on Tuesday.
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Officials said about 500 volcanic earthquakes had been recorded on the mountain over the weekend of 23 24 October, and that the magma had risen to about below the surface due to the seismic activity
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Officials said about 500 volcanic earthquakes had been recorded on the mountain over the weekend of 23 24 October, and that the magma had risen to about below the surface due to the seismic activity.
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The events were recorded as explosion type-earthquakes at 1 : 34 AM and 1 : 39 AM . The seismic network recorded 40 volcanic earthquakes and 8 short duration harmonic tremors during the previous 24 hours.
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Officials said about 500 volcanic earthquakes had been recorded on the mountain over the weekend of 23 24 October, and that the magma had risen to about a below the surface due to the seismic activity.
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Montserrat, a 7-by-11-mile island in the east Caribbean, has been full alert for nearly two weeks, since its first volcanic earthquake at Chances Peak, the island's highest mountain at 3, 000 feet ( 914 meters ).
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Geologists and seismologists from the Caribbean Seismic Research Unit in Trinidad and a volcanologist from Brown University in Rhode Island rushed to the scene of the first recorded volcanic earthquake on the island, formed by ancient volcanoes.
