Residents in Orange Zone sent home
Residents of the Orange Zone – e.g. Georgetown as pictured here – even before the order was given to return, had begun returning to their homes to do preliminary cleaning.
By: Gloriah•
Displaced persons up to the Rabacca River on the Eastern side of the island and up to Petit Bordel on the West, began returning to their homes earlier this week.
According to Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves as he spoke on radio on May 23, residents from the Orange Zone displaced following the series of eruptions of the La Soufrière volcano and who were accommodated in emergency shelters, were expected to begin their return on Tuesday 25th May.
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Kingstown – Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves says his government expects that most evacuees from the volcano Orange Zone and people whose houses were damaged by the La Soufriere eruption are to leave emergency shelters by next Tuesday.
He said only those from Fitz Hughes and Chateaubelair – where there is still a lot of ash would not be allowed to go.
“But everywhere else in the Orange Zone, as I speak, persons should be leaving the shelters to go back home,” the prime minister said, speaking on NBC Radio from Cuba where he has gone to accompany his wife for therapy after spinal surgery in the United States earlier this year.
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Kingstown – Seismic activity at the La Soufrière volcano in St Vincent has remained low since the tremor associated with the explosion and ash venting three days ago.
Additionally, scientists monitoring the volcano have indicated that over the last 24 hours only a few long-period, hybrid and volcano-tectonic earthquakes were recorded, with no further tremor.
The Seismic Research Centre (SRC) of the University of the West Indies (UWI) said in its latest update that since the initial depressurisation – a decrease in pressure within a volcano caused by the release of magma, gases or fluids during an explosive event – noted immediately following the April 9 explosive phase, the continuous GPS network has recorded a decrease in the overall rates of horizontal and vertical movement.
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