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Heavy rains worsen the effects of St Vincent and the Grenadines La Soufrière volcano · Global Voices

Heavy rains worsen the effects of St Vincent and the Grenadines La Soufrière volcano · Global Voices
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UWI-SRC needs more funding - Searchlight

The University of the West Indies Seismic Research Centre (UWI-SRC) needs more funding.  The UWI-SRC team predicted the eruption of La Soufriere volcano and as a result Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves was able to issue an evacuation order one day before the volcano began erupting explosively.   “You need to make sure that agencies like the one I work for, that we have the resources to do what we do,” Professor Richard Robertson of the UWI-SRC commented from the patio of the Belmont Volcano Observatory in North Leeward on Saturday, April 24.  Robertson said he has become the face of UWI-SRC in St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) “for whatever reason” but his team is made up of many persons and journalists need to investigate what kind of resources they have.  

Heavy rains cause mudflows, flooding in St Vincent

Social Share 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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