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Extensive erosion on the coastline at wet Wallibou, St Vincent due to lahars on April 29. Picture taken from footage by Professor Richard Robertson, UWI-SRC. (UWI-SRC) Social Share
Kingstown – The scientists monitoring the La Soufriere Volcano here are warning that it continues to be in a state of unrest even though seismic activity remains low since the tremor associated with the explosion and ash venting more than a week ago.
The Seismic Research Centre (SRC) of the University of the West Indies (UWI), in its latest bulletin, said that in the last 24 hours, only a few long-period, hybrid and volcano-tectonic earthquakes have been recorded and there was no further tremor.
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Eyeing La Soufriere Morning Edition today, Dr. Robertson explained the impact of the mud flows in the Wallibou area.
Dr. Robertson said the lahars which occurred this week were particularly destructive, because of the material being carried down with the flow.
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La Soufriere volcano is “quiet” but secondary hazards like lahar (mudflow), caused by heavy overnight and early morning rains, are posing a new kind of danger to the people of St Vincent and the Grenadines.
Speaking on the daily update on NBC Radio on Thursday, seismologist Roderick Stewart said the equipment that was monitoring the volcano indicated it was quiet and there were no tremors, but lahars were occurring in all of the major drainage valleys and these could have caused damage as they passed from the volcano to the sea.
Stewart, who is monitoring from the Belmont base, said this would lead to flooding because lahar tends to block existing culverts and drainage and cut new roads and paths.
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