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Follow RT on The government of the Caribbean island of St. Vincent has ordered a mass evacuation of the area close to an active volcano, with seismologists saying that an explosive eruption could start “with very little warning.”
Some 16,000 people living in the vicinity of La Soufriere volcano in the so-called
“red zone” will be evacuated, either to safer parts of the island or to a cruise ship, the authorities announced on Thursday.
While the volcano has shown seismic activity since December 2020, in the past few days it has gone up a notch, prompting fears of an imminent and potentially devastating full-blown eruption.
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By Tatiana Arias, AnneClaire Stapleton and Steve Almasy, CNN
Updated 11:54 PM ET, Thu April 8, 2021
Early morning view of La Soufrière volcano on Thursday, April 8, 2021. (CNN)St. Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves on Thursday declared a disaster alert prompted by a change in the eruptive activity at the La Soufrière volcano, according to the country s National Emergency Management Organization.
The island is on red alert, meaning an eruption is imminent now, NEMO said.
Evacuation orders are in place in about a dozen districts of St. Vincent, affecting roughly 6,000 to 7,000 people, a spokesperson for the University of the West Indies Seismic Research Centre, or UWI-SRC, told CNN.