In Martinique, Mount Pelée is trembling, and so is the population: "We all need to be aware that the volcano is reactivating."

From the terrace of the Martinique Volcanological and Seismological Observatory, the lush greenery of the island's north unfolds before you. The landscape is breathtaking. "Here, we have one of the most beautiful views in Martinique," says Jérôme Vergne, the director, smiling. Below, you can see the towns of Saint-Pierre and Morne-Rouge, as well as the Caribbean Sea.

High above, the summit of Mount Pelée, measuring 1,397 meters, stares directly at us. At first glance, the volcano, whose slopes are traversed each year by hundreds of thousands of hikers , appears remarkably calm in early October. Yet this tranquility is only apparent: for several months now, underground, fluids have been circulating, the ground trembles, and the seismometers at the observatory are going haywire.

While normally the twelve sensors placed around Mount Pelée record about twenty earthquakes of volcanic origin each month, they recorded more than 6,000 in just the two weeks preceding our visit.

The rise began in the middle of the year, explains Jérôme Vergne, scrolling through graphs and seismograms on his screen, and has been growing almost continuously ever since. To the point of already exceeding t