La Soufrière volcano in St. Vincent erupts

[JEK]

https://apnews.com/article/caribbea...-evacuations-36560831226084224ab28f5210dff55c

 

[17.9000° N 62.8333° W]

What?! Wowwww!

 

[JEK]

It can cause flight disruptions in the region

 

[JEK]

 

[bkeats]

That's really interesting. A volcano by the same name has been active on Montserrat for a while. I wondering if this is an indication that the volcanoes in the eastern Caribbean are going to get more active in general.

 

[didier]

Ash plume up to 20 thousand feet heading east. scary.

 

[amyb]

That's really interesting. A volcano by the same name has been active on Montserrat for a while. I wondering if this is an indication that the volcanoes in the eastern Caribbean are going to get more active in general.

Hoping our neighbors on St Vincent are safe.

 

[JEK]

Hoping our neighbors on St Vincent are safe.

They are being evacuated by unused cruise ships.


Roughly 16,000 people live in the red zone and required evacuation, Erouscilla Joseph, director of the University of the West Indies’ Seismic Research Center, told The Associated Press.
Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves urged people not to panic amid dire warnings from experts.
“An explosive phase of the eruption may begin with very little warning,” the University of the West Indies’ Seismic Research Center said in a statement.
Many worried that evacuation efforts would be hampered by the pandemic, with Gonsalves noting that the cruise ships and other islands would require evacuees to be vaccinated. He also said he was working with other Caribbean governments to ensure that they could accept an ID card since not everyone has a passport.
“This is an emergency situation, and everybody understands that,” he said.
He said two Royal Caribbean cruise ships and two Carnival Cruise Line ones are expected to arrive on Friday. Islands that have said they would accept evacuees include St. Lucia, Grenada, Barbados and Antigua.
Gonsalves added that he highly recommends those who opt to go to a shelter in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, an island chain of more than 100,000 people, be vaccinated.

 

[didier]

Sandy Bay Village covered in Ash St. Vincent

 

[Jim Kelly-Evans]

It looks devastating. We visited Montserrat in 1993, a year or two before the major eruption that wiped out much of the island including Plymouth, the capital.

 

[Snorkeler]

My wife and I were scheduled to fly to Saint Lucia (north of St. Vincent) yesterday. American Airlines cancelled the flight due to the volcanic ash.

 

[amyb]

My wife and I were scheduled to fly to Saint Lucia (north of St. Vincent) yesterday. American Airlines cancelled the flight due to the volcanic ash.

Oh no! ”The best laid plans of mice and men......Robert Burns.

Did you have a plan B?

 

[Snorkeler]

Wait and see. Next available seats are on Tuesday. Today's flight (Sunday) is already cancelled.

 

[didier]

Scientists are expecting more eruptions at La Soufriere, Sometimes scientists are wrong. ray1:

 

[stbartshopper]

Those pictures of the ash reminded us of the cancellations in northern Europe due to the Icelandic eruption. a number of years back. Hope everybody is okay.

 

[didier]

Large explosion this morning at 4:15 a.m. The islands disaster agency reported that the current activity pattern is similar to the 1902 eruption and is likely to cause more damage. 20,000 persons have been removed from the Red Zone already.

 

[elgreaux]

They say the ash is traveling as far north as Martinique... and of course it's very sad situation for the people of St Vincent.

 

[JEK]

I became confused by the name of the volcano on St. Vincent with the one on Monserrat.

The Soufrière Hills are an active, complex stratovolcano with many lava domes forming its summit on the Caribbean island of Montserrat. Many volcanoes in the Caribbean are named Soufrière. These include La Soufrière or Soufrière Saint Vincent on the island of Saint Vincent, and La Grande Soufrière on Guadeloupe.

 

[KevinS]

For me, include the town of Soufrière on St Lucia, where a young entrepreneur tried to sell me a Conch shell while I was moored to the dock. When faced with resistance, he said “OK, I’ll sell it to you for 9. The shell costs me 10, but I’ll make it up on the volume.” He didn’t get a sale from me (unsure about CITES), but I’m sure that he is successful in life.

 

[stbartshopper]

Another explosion there yesterday with temporary power outages. There are reports of homes imploding due to the weight of the ash. Those poor people. Wonder if the Red Cross will be coming in?