St. Vincent - La Soufrière Eruption Expected

[Dsanduril]

St. Vincent has declared a state of emergency with an expected imminent eruption of La Soufrière.

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/04/08/a...ntl/index.html

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.

[GordMay]

Evacuation Order - La Soufriere Volcano, SVG, 8 April 2021
➥

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEv7V3ecbds

[GordMay]

Cruise ships race to evacuate residents from Caribbean island of St. Vincent as volcano threatens to erupt
“... Roughly 16,000 people live in the red zone and will need to be evacuated, Erouscilla Joseph, director of the University of the West Indies' Seismic Research Center, told The Associated Press.
The pandemic could hamper evacuation efforts.
Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves said in a press conference that people have to be vaccinated if they go aboard a cruise ship or are granted temporary refuge in another island. He said two Royal Caribbean cruise ships are expected to arrive by Friday and a third one in the coming days, as well as two Carnival cruise ships by Friday. Islands that have said they would accept evacuees include St. Lucia, Grenada, Barbados and Antigua ...”
More ➥ https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/st-vin...tion-1.5980633