The eruption of the volcano La Soufrière three miles of evacuations and courtesies of light and water in San Vicente | International

The eruption of the volcano La Soufrière, in the island of San Vicente and the Granadinas, in the south of the Caribbean, killed at least 16,000 people evacuated and courtesy of electricity and water, in addition to a scenario described by Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves as “Desolado” with vegetation, houses and squares covered by a dense cape of ceniza.

Explosive episodes, associated with temples, riots and thunderstorms and an intense chain of events, continue since the month of the fires, when the volcano hizo eruption has been inactive for more than four decades. The University of Trinidad and Tobago’s Sísmica Investigation Center (UWI, by its flags in English), which monitors the activity of La Soufrière, has informed the Domingo that it has reported cases in the islands Las Granadinas, Santa Lucia and Barbados trains last 179 kilometers to this San Vicente. “It is probable that the explosions accompanied by a series of censuses of a magnitude similar to the superior continuous in the nearest days”, this organism announced in a communication.

The Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves has confirmed that the good part of the island, with more than 100,000 inhabitants, is without water and informs the director of the aerospace area about the lack of visibility that provokes the columns of humankind and volcanic ash. The mandate was issued to the people who are in mandatory evacuation areas to comply with the regulations issued by the Government. Since the passage of Jews, 16,000 people have been evacuated. Salary money from the island in cruises or boats, while one is 3,000 in refugee facilities by the Government in more secure areas of the island.

San Vicente cube ceniza caused by the explosion of the volcano La Soufrière

The images published by the UWI’s Sísmica Investigation Center showcase the vegetation covered by a thick cape and the converted fireplaces in the volcanic and agave materials mix. “There’s a lot of humor and ceniza in the air and noche”, said Lennox Lampkin, a farmer from Kingstown, the capital, in the south of the island. In a transmission through its Facebook account, the male accountant rescued all his animals in order not to be affected by the malady of the air and showed his preoccupation with the water of water, pomelo, guayaba and mango. that live. “If he did not die, he could lose everything,” he lamented.

According to the geologist of the UWI Richie Richardson, the pattern of activity of La Soufrière is similar to that of 1902 when the pyroclastic material of the volcano was found in the nearby populations in the north of Iceland, which are vivacious in the sugar industry, and more than 1,000 deaths. The last time the volcano La Soufrière erupted on April 13, 1979, is exactly 42 years old.

“In addition to the columns of humor, the most pertinent ones can be the pyroclastic flows of lava that flow through the lads of the volcano destroying everything in its path,” Professor Richardson told NBC Local Radio.

As the success of the Hurricane Embassy in the Caribbean Islands, the volcanic eruption in San Vicente has generated solidarity between the Vince Islands. On Saturday, the boats of the Barbados Marina were sent to San Vicente to receive humanitarian aid and peacekeeping missions such as Antigua and Barbuda and Guyana, where they were rescued and were able to dispose of the territory in order to receive the evacuees.