Soufriere leaves gaping hole as it blasts out domes Social Share INSTEAD of the two rock domes that had previously formed in the crater of La Soufriere, there is now a gaping hole from which explosions/venting is taking place.
From satellite imagery, “We now know that the new dome and the old dome are gone. They have been destroyed completely,” informed Professor Richard Robertson, Vincentian geologist and volcanologist who heads the team from the University of the West Indies-Seismic Research Centre(UWI-SRC) and the Montserrat Volcano Observatory( MVO) monitoring the volcano.
Since December 2020 a dome had been created by the oozing of magma, and had grown to a volume of 13 million cubic metres before the explosive phase of eruptions began at 8:41am on Friday, April 9. This dome had formed to the side of an older and bigger dome from the 1979 eruption, and had been wrapping around it. Now, both have been blown to pieces into the atmosphere by the ongoing explosi
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