An explosive eruption at Soufrière St. Vincent on 9 April propelled volcanic gas and ash into the atmosphere. The plume then spread east, toward Barbados. Credit: NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geol…

An explosive eruption at Soufrière St. Vincent on 9 April propelled volcanic gas and ash into the atmosphere. The plume then spread east, toward Barbados. Credit: NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey and MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS LANCE and GIBS/Worldview

Eyeing Explosive Ash Clouds from Above and Below


By Alka Tripathy-Lang

May 5, 2021

Sparkling marine waters typically mirror breathtakingly blue skies in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, islands of the Lesser Antilles arc in the Caribbean. On Friday, 9 April, azure turned gray as volcanic ash shot upward from La Soufrière, the volcano on the northern end of the main island of St. Vincent. At least a dozen explosive events have occurred since then.

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