Soufriere – Just venting!
LA SOUFRIERE VOLCANO has been steaming from two vents with few earthquakes recorded in the 24 hours before publication. (Photo: Seismic Unit) l Social Share
SINCE THE LAST EXPLOSION at La Soufrière on April 22, seismic signals from the stations still connected to the network, were reflecting a low activity level.
Giving an update on the National Broadcasting Corporation(NBC) radio yesterday morning, April 26, lead scientist on the ground monitoring the eruption, Professor Richard Robertson, noted that since Thursday’s eruption things have been relatively quiet.
Joining Robertson in giving this update was volcano-seismologist Roderick Stewart. Stewart explained that seismically, there have been different volcanic earthquakes, such as the volcano-tectonic, the long period, and the hybrid, that have been recorded throughout the explosive period.
Airport monitors eruption aftermath as operations resume
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Airport officials were keeping their eyes on the skies while operations have returned to normal Monday following a one-week shutdown due to severe ash fall from St Vincent’s La Soufriere volcano.
Grantley Adams International Airport CEO Hadley Bourne said management is monitoring the situation to ensure the protection of the aerodrome.
“We reopened on the 16th and everything is pretty much normal,” Bourne told
Barbados TODAY. “There is still a continuous monitoring and wetting down to make sure that any ash from the outside or nothing doesn’t re-enter the aerodrome… but we are continually monitoring and cleaning,”
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Kingstown – Linking geothermal energy exploration to the eruption of La Soufriere is like expecting a skin-deep injection to puncture one’s heart, geologist Professor Richard Robertson has said in response to questions about whether the drilling on the volcano’s slopes last year could have resulted in the current eruptions.
“In the case of geothermal, both at this volcano and other volcanoes, there is no indication scientifically that they should affect each other in terms of getting a volcano going. And certainly, in this case, we don’t think it did,” he said.
In 2019, the government dug three wells as part of the geothermal energy project, but each failed to produce the required permeability. Then, in December 2020, after almost 42 years of inactivity, La Soufriere began erupting effusively, then exploded on April 9 – an eruption that continues to date.
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