/data/photo/2021/04/10/60717ccb743ad.jpg "Inactive Since 1979, Volcanoes in the Caribbean have erupted again")
KOMPAS.com- Over the decades, since 1979, volcano La Soufriere in the archipelago Caribbean east, finally erupted again, on Friday (9/4/2021).
Plumes of volcanic ash and dark smoke billowed into the sky when this volcano erupted, displacing thousands of people residing in the villages around the mountain.
Reporting from Reuters, Saturday (10/4/2021), volcanic activity from the volcano at St. Petersburg. Vincent, the Caribbean is inactive since 1979.
However, in December 2020, the volcano began to show signs of volcanic activity, emitting steam and smoke, as well as rumbling sounds.
Seeing the volcanic activity, prompting the Prime Minister St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Ralph Gonsalves to evacuate residents around the volcano on Thursday night.
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volcano erupting on Friday morning, ash and smoke covered the neighboring area and made the weather appear completely dark, even from thick smoke volcano eruption the fire covered the sun.
An eyewitness said an explosion could be heard from Rose Hall, the closest village to the site of the La Soufriere volcano.
Erouscilla Joseph, director at the University of the West Indies Seismic Research Center said the small explosions from the volcanic eruption continued throughout the day.
This kind of volcanic activity, he said, could last for weeks or even months.
“This is just the beginning,” Joseph said.
The population of the St. Vincent and the Grenadines, on this Caribbean Island, there are more than 100,000 people.
The history of the La Soufriere volcanic eruption on the Caribbean Island, which means sulfur outlet in French, in 1902 is recorded to have killed more than 1,000 people.
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The eruption column is estimated to have reached an altitude of 10 km, the seismic research center said. Ash rain can affect a number of areas in these Caribbean islands, including the Grenadines, Barbados, St. Lucia and Grenada.
The seismic research center on Twitter said that the ash smoke could cause flight delays due to diversions.
The impact of the volcanic eruption, volcanic ash can cause discomfort to people suffering from respiratory diseases and will have an impact on water resources.
Local media in recent days also reported increased activity from Mount Pelee on the island of Martinique, which lies north of St. Vincent outside St. Vincent Lucia.
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About 4,500 residents near the volcano have been evacuated by boat and road, said Gonsalves.
According to the National Emergency Management Organization St. Vincent, the heavy ash rain has stopped evacuation efforts due to poor visibility.
Gonsalves said that depending on the level of damage, it would take four months before the refugees could return home.
The evacuation of Caribbean residents affected by the volcano that erupted last Friday morning was increasingly constrained in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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