Montserrat 1930's
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Title
Montserrat 1930's
Subject
The Montserrat volcanic crisis of the 1930's
Description
Years of earthquakes and tremors felt on Montserrat caused concern among the Island's residents about the possibility of a volcanic eruption.
Date
1930's
Collection Items
Earthquake monitoring on Montserrat: Cost of retaining measuring instruments used by a Royal Society expedition
Discussions around instrumentation for monitoring earthquake activity on Montserrat in the 1930's. A mixture of typed and hand written communication.Includes the Royal society expedition report and reports from the volcano-seismological station on…
Earthquakes: reports from seismo-volcanological station on Montserrat
Account of volcanological and seismological observations made at the monitoring station on Montserrat.
Frank Perret to Arthur Day 1st March 1935 RE: Montserrat Activity
Letter contains info RE gas samples and observations on Montserrat.
J S Neill (Administrator - Dominica) to Frank A. Perret 1st April 1938 RE: Montserrat Report
Receipt of Perret's report on Montserrat and thanks for services rendered.
Assorted correspondence between Perret, Day and Keppel - including photographs
Letters between Perret, Day and Keppel regarding earthquakes and potential volcanic activity on Montserrat, including photographs of Plymouth and the Gages Soufriere.
Letter: Perret to Day 22nd May 1934
Observations, wind carried gasses off-shore, visit up to the Soufrière, concern RE the conditions.
Letter: Commissioner of Montserrat to Perret 9th June 1934
Decreasing activity, reference to smell of gas and intensity of earthquakes
Perret Report on Montserrat activity - 2nd November 1935
Seismic phenomena, May 6th, August 24th, December 12th.
Chances Mount.
Morale on Montserrat.
Gases, nature of those emmitted has not changed, contents of the gas.
Mentions Dr Shepherd's tests.
Use of odour to ID gasses.
Temperatures not high enough…