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.
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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.
Airport monitors eruption aftermath as operations resume
Article by April 27, 2021
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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La Soufriere Volcano began erupting explosively on April 9. (Photo courtesy University of the West Indies Seismic Research Centre) Social Share
The UWI St Augustine – Experts at The University of the West Indies Seismic Research Centre (UWI-SRC) have advised that La Soufrière volcano in St Vincent and the Grenadines remains dangerous despite pauses in explosive activity.
During a virtual press conference hosted on Wednesday, April 21, Rod Stewart, volcano-seismologist from the UWI-SRC/Montserrat Volcano Observatory (MVO) said “although it is easy to identify the start of eruptions, conclusively saying when eruptions are over, often proves more difficult”.
The UWI-SRC and Vincentian authorities continue to monitor developments at the volcano, as they have been since the onset of heightened activity in December 2020, which entered an explosive phase on April 9, 2021.