communications are struggling. the prime minister of new zealand said there was a thin film of ash everywhere. the column and the umbrella cloud produce was at least 200 kilometres wide so it is fully covered with ash. but the tsunami is probably the biggest impact and that has been propagating across the space across the bill specific including japan and the united states. that is causing some damage. not anything as bad as perhaps we saw in the eruption of crack and how about two years ago, which had a much bigger local impact, but still it is a tsunami which is interesting. the tsunami process and what produces the tsunami is really interesting. i m sure we ll find out, but at the moment it is not clear whether the tsunami was because between the collapse of material underwater or the shock wave itself. producing a
Ash, Ash Everywhere!!!
By: Gloriah•
Residents of St. Vincent and the Grenadines awoke on the morning of Saturday, 10th April, to a spectacle of blankets of grey ash covering almost every square inch of surface around their properties.
According to The University of the West Indies Seismic Research Centre (UWI SRC), the La Soufriere volcano had sprung into an explosive phase around 8:42 am on Friday, 9th, and this was followed by two other explosions.
These explosions/eruptions flung ash plumes some 20,000 feet into the sky, from which the ash then descended on property, vegetation, infer-structure, all life forms.
There was a general amazement at the way the ash just sat around evenly covering porches, roofs, vehicles, vegetation and many other land features. And it, with a slight resemblance to the ash produced from wood burning, this dark-grey mixture of rock fragments and fine mineral particles brought with it a pungent smell of sulphur.