Posted on 01/04/2021 9:22:20 AM PST by Red Badger
Residents of St. Vincent and the Grenadines have been told to remain alert after a Caribbean volcano came back to life.
La Soufrière is the highest point in St. Vincent and is located near the northern tip of the country but remained dormant for decades before beginning to spew ash on Tuesday this week, AP reported.
Steam, gas, and a volcanic dome formed by lava that reached the earth's surface could also be seen above the volcano, according to the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA).
The country's government, which consists of a chain of islands home to more than 100,000, raised the alert level to orange, meaning that eruptions could occur with less than 24 hours' notice.
La Soufrière, St. Vincent is in the Windward Islands, close to Barbados and St Lucia. (Business Insider)
La Soufrière last erupted in 1979 but did not cause any harm due to warning, while a 1902 eruption led to 1,600 deaths.
In an unrelated incident early last month, authorities from the nearby Caribbean island of Martinique issued a yellow alert due to seismic activity under Mount Pelée, the Independent reported.
Fabrice Fontaine from the Volcanological and Seismological Observatory of Martinique told AP that it is the first time an alert of its kind has been issued since the volcano last erupted in 1932.
Mount Pelée also erupted in 1902 and killed almost 30,000 people, making it the deadliest eruption in the whole of the 20th century.
In December, Hawaii's Kilauea volcano erupted for the first time since 2018 and created a 600ft deep lava lake, according to NPR.
However, the most active volcanoes in the Americas have been the Soufrière Hills in Montserrat, which have erupted continuously since 1995 and killed at least 19 people in 1997, Erik Klemetti, a volcanologist from Denison University, Ohio, told AP.
Trump’s Fault!
Caused by Global Warming!
It doesn’t like all those SUVs!
We need more government!
I’ve been wondering if any others here have noticed the large uptick in volcanoes all around the world - not just in the Caribbean.
All of the greenies' work to get rid of the CO2 and cool the earth down, all up in smoke by an erupting volcano.
What are they going to do now?
Bask in the warmth?
Krakatoa Katy must be shaking her sarong, heating things up.
Is it an actual uptick, or an uptick in reporting? There are a lot of volcanos in the world and activity that a few years ago would be of only local concern now gets out on to the internet more often.
Where I go, I hope there’s Rhum.....
I don’t know where I’m a gonna go...I had the LP, long gone. Wow, do you still have 8 track tapes?
Yes....................
As someone who follows this, I’d call it an uptick, and bigly.
“St. Vincent and the Grenadines”
Weren’t they a British Boy Band back in the 60’s?
Flying out of St. Vincent was a problem because the plane took off downhill, down wind , and many days they would not take passengers flying out because the wind was too high and the plane couldn't gert much of a "Lift" going down hill with the wind blowing in that direction.
I was there prior to St. Vincent getting their Independence.
I expect the runway is more modernized now, that it has become a tourist attraction Island, complete with a cruise ship stop. -Tom
I just booked a 2 week Kiteboarding excursion Feb 1st to the 14th in Turks and Caicos for me and my 3 adult kids... this better not fk things up for me on top any further potential Covid BS!!!!! AAAaargh!!
Too far away...............
Evac them to Cuba-the social paradise
Yeah, kinda like canceling a ski trip to Colorado due to Mount St. Helens rumbling in Washington...
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