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The volcano erupted due to it lying on a destructive plate boundary, where the denser North American Plate, was sinking underneath the less dense Caribbean Plate causing a subduction zone. As the two plates merge the oceanic plate is forced down or sub-ducted under the continental plate. As it is forced down pressure increases which triggers earthquakes and at the same time heat produced by friction melts the descending crust to form molten magma. The hot magma tries to form molten magma to rise to the surface and when it succeeds it will create a volcano like the one we have here.

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