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Published Saturday, April 10, 2021 6:42AM EDT Last Updated Saturday, April 10, 2021 1:31PM EDT KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent Ash rained down across the eastern Caribbean island of St. Vincent on Saturday and a strong sulfur smell enveloped communities a day after a powerful explosion at La Soufriere volcano uprooted the lives of thousands of people who evacuated their homes under government orders. Lush green Caribbean villages were transformed into gloomy, gray versions of Alpine villages under a blanket of fine soot, which also hung in the air, obscuring the sun and creeping into homes, cars and noses. Some ash fell as far away as Barbados, about 120 miles (190 kilometres) east of St. Vincent.
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The ash plume reached as high as six miles into the air.
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Thousands evacuated as volcano erupts in St. Vincent
People evacuated from the area as the Caribbean island had a second volcanic eruption.Robertson S. Henr/Reuters
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad Much of St. Vincent remains covered in ash, following eruptions at the island s La Soufriere volcano.
After nearly 42 years without an explosion, the volcano in the northern part of the eastern Caribbean island, erupted Friday.
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Ash and smoke billow as the La Soufriere volcano erupts in Kingstown on the eastern Caribbean island of St. Vincent, April 9, 2021.
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Heavy ash and the stench of sulfur began to blanket parts of the eastern Caribbean island of St. Vincent Saturday as scientists warned that Friday’s explosion at La Soufriere volcano could be the first of many and thousands continued to evacuate the area.
“The first bang is not necessarily the biggest bang this volcano will give,” said geologist Richard Robertson of the University of the West Indies’ Seismic Research Center, during a news conference.
Satellite images showed La Soufriere’s plumes visible from space as the threat of more seismic activity displaced an estimated 16,000 island residents who fled with hastily stuffed suitcases, backpacks and shopping bags toward coastal shelters and cruise ships prepared to ferry them to neighboring islands that had offered to take them in.