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Three men from New Chapmans are braving out the eruptions

Three men from New Chapmans are ‘braving out’ the eruptions Left to Right: DAVE SUTTON, DAVID SEYMOUR & TERRY JOSEPH Social Share ON A BRIDGE in New Chapmans, three forlorn figures stood looking at the mountain top, the Soufriere volcano. “My family from the area, couple sisters and mother and father. All the house in one area, so I decided to stick around,” Dave Sutton told SEARCHLIGHT on Sunday, three days after the Soufriere volcano moved from effusive to explosive, covering the entire country in ash. Sutton, his brother in law Terry Joseph, and their friend David Seymour, had all decided to battle the exploding volcano at their home in the red zone. The men are protecting their properties and livestock the best they can.

Soufriere leaves gaping hole as it blasts out domes

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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