La Soufriere volcano has shot out another explosive burst of gas and ash as a cruise ship arrived to evacuate some of the foreigners who had been stuck on a St. Vincent island coated in ash from a week of violent eruptions.
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Plumes of ash rise from the La Soufriere volcano on the eastern Caribbean island of St. Vincent. Friday morning s blast “wasn’t a big explosion compared to the ones that we (had) last weekend, but it was big enough to punch a hole through the clouds, said Richard Robertson, lead scientist at the University of the West Indies Seismic Research Center, in an interview with local NBC radio. “Probably got up to 8,000 meters.
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Ash, Ash Everywhere!!!
By: Gloriah•
Residents of St. Vincent and the Grenadines awoke on the morning of Saturday, 10th April, to a spectacle of blankets of grey ash covering almost every square inch of surface around their properties.
According to The University of the West Indies Seismic Research Centre (UWI SRC), the La Soufriere volcano had sprung into an explosive phase around 8:42 am on Friday, 9th, and this was followed by two other explosions.
These explosions/eruptions flung ash plumes some 20,000 feet into the sky, from which the ash then descended on property, vegetation, infer-structure, all life forms.
There was a general amazement at the way the ash just sat around evenly covering porches, roofs, vehicles, vegetation and many other land features. And it, with a slight resemblance to the ash produced from wood burning, this dark-grey mixture of rock fragments and fine mineral particles brought with it a pungent smell of sulphur.