One of history’s deadliest volcanoes is showing renewed signs of unrest decades after its last eruption.
Mount Pelée sits on the Caribbean island of Martinique, roughly 1,500 miles southeast of Florida and along heavily traveled air routes connecting the region with the US.
The volcano’s most notorious eruption struck in 1902, when a superheated cloud tore through Saint-Pierre and killed approximately 30,000 people within minutes and more recently between 1929 and 1932.
Now, experts have reported a sharp increase in seismic activity, detecting 124 earthquakes between July 24 and July 31, nearly three times the 45 recorded the previous week.
The Martinique Volcanological and Seismological
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