Eruption on 23rd February, 1997 ; The Piparo mud volcano erupted in 1997, a large part of the town was declared a disaster area after the mud volcano erupted. The Volcano caused widespread damage that left 108 people homeless. Three houses, more than a dozen vehicles and scores of farm animals, poultry and houses pets were buried under tons of gaseous grey mud which spewed some 200 feet into the air when the volcano blew. Eleven other houses were partially submerged under the mud. And several others badly damaged by the tremors which accompanied the eruption. More than 300 people within a one-mile radius of the volcano had to be evacuated.
Thirty-one families were displaced by the eruption. Fifteen cars, four pick-up vans, some 15 cattle, 13 goats, scores of poultry and pets were buried. The early morning eruption sent residents screaming and scampering in panic from the tumbling grey mud which pulled down electricity poles, telephone wires, ripped apart pipe lines and knocked down huge trees. A nearby temple, Aum Kar Hindu Temple, and convicted murderer Dole Chadee’s temple were cracked in several places. Tombstones in the Piparo Cemetery tilted and fissures erupted along the road for more than a mile. The eruption rocked areas for miles around. Damage was estimated at millions of TT Dollars
Since the initial eruption on the 23rd February 1997, there was subsequent activity on the 2nd March, 1997 and December 2011.
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