The recovery that Martinique hoped to receive through tourists disappeared when it had its last eruption from 1929 to 1932, which scared off potential inhabitants. The biggest effect it had though was that it inspired the beginning of modern volcanology. It helped scientists define pyroclastic flows which contributed greatly. The most famous scientists who studied the mountain were Angelo Heilprin and Antoine Lacroix. Lacroix was actually the one to first describe a pyroclastic flow in depth.
Although the mountain has devastated the humans the mountain has lived in relative harmony with nature. Being in the Caribbean and having fast growing jungles covering the island, Martinique’s plant and animal population was quick to recover from the eruptions.
