St. Vincent suffers from power outage after La Soufrière volcano erupts

St. Vincent suffers from power outage after La Soufrière volcano erupts

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“Day No. 3 and everything looks like a battle zone. Gloomy morning with the ash starting to harden on the ground due to overnight showers. Many houses still without water and electricity,” NEMO said in one of a series of tweets.

Volcanic ash has continued to fall and there are warnings of more danger.

“Pyroclastic flows” at La Soufriere could potentially cause destruction and devastation to areas near the volcano, according to NEMO.

Pyroclastic currents “contain a mixture of hot lava blocks, pumice, ash and high-density volcanic gas. They move at very high speeds down volcanic slopes, usually to valleys,” according to the USGS and “destroyed almost everything in their path. “

The University of West Indies Seismic Research Center took photos on Sunday morning taken by one of its researchers from an ash-covered landscape in St. Petersburg. Vincent, using the hashtag #stilldangerous.
It posted a scientific update 09:00 ET on Twitter and said that tremor that lasted up to 20 minutes continued during the previous 12 hours.

“Based on visual observations and satellite imagery, the intervals are associated with periods of explosive activity or increased venting,” he said.

“Thunderstorms and lightning were experienced during these periods.”

Ash continued to fall on the island overnight and also the neighboring islands, the Grenadines, Barbados and St. Lucia, influenced. “Explosions and associated ash, of similar or greater magnitude, are likely to continue for the next few days.”

Soldiers and residents stand next to an ash-covered city in Kingstown on Saturday.

Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves on Thursday issued a disaster warning due to a change in the volcano’s eruptive activity. He issued an evacuation order for all residents living in a “red zone”. Gonsalves said it could take four months for life to return to normal on the island.

Authorities said it was likely explosive eruptions could continue for “days and possibly weeks” after the first eruption on Friday stretched an ash flow that stretched 6,096 meters (20,000 feet) into the air.

According to NEMO, the eruption on Friday morning was the first by La Soufrière volcano since April 1979.
“La Soufriere volcano erupted on the second Friday in April (Friday 13 April) in 1979. Four days shy of its anniversary, it erupted again on the second Friday in April (9) in 2021,” the organization said Twitter.

La Soufrière is on the largest island of the St. Vincent and the Grenadines chain located.

Patrick Oppmann of CNN reports from Havana and Claudia Dominguez from Atlanta. CNN’s Susannah Cullinane, Theresa Waldrup and Radina Gigova also contributed to this report.

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