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As volcanoes begin to spray ash after lying dormant for decades, residents of St Vincent and the Grenadines have been ordered to leave their homes.

Authorities have issued a warning for the region, impacting over 100,000 people, as the current eruption is assessed by scientists. Officials warned on Tuesday of heavy gas emissions, the creation of a new volcanic dome and improvements to the La Soufriere volcano's crater lake.

The warning level was increased to an orange today, with indications that the volcano could erupt within a day and urge people to evacuate. The decision to raise the level of alarm comes as it began to spew ash and a new volcanic dome was created.

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https://twitter.com/Xy5Z89/status/1345030262548275201?s=19

The last erruption btw was 1979 but actual there was no detected earthquake in the open seismic networks.

BUT HERE
Background

Soufrière St. Vincent is the northernmost and youngest volcano on St. Vincent Island. The 1.6-km wide summit crater, whose NE rim is cut by a crater formed in 1812, lies on the SW margin of the 2.2-km-wide Somma crater,
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which is breached widely to the SW as a result of slope failure. Frequent explosive eruptions since about 4300 years ago produced pyroclastic deposits of the Yellow Tephra Formation, which blanket much of the island.
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The first historical eruption of the volcano took place during 1718; it and the 1812 eruption produced major explosions. Much of the northern end of the island was devastated by a major eruption in 1902 that coincided with the catastrophic Mont Pelée eruption on Martinique.
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A lava dome was emplaced in the summit crater in 1971 during a strictly effusive eruption, forming an island in a lake that filled the crater prior to an eruption in 1979.
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The lake was then largely ejected during a series of explosive eruptions, and the dome was replaced with another.
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Volcanic Hazard Map of Soufrière St. Vincent volcano (image: UWI-SRC)

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Bulleting No.3
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in case you dont bekive with the evacuation order: dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9…