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<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="1290029" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Saint-Vincent">Saint Vincent</keyword> is covered in ash as a <keyword id="6357324" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="Volcano">volcano</keyword> continues to erupt following Friday's initial blow.</li><li>La Soufrière had been dormant for more than 40 years, but showed signs of activity in December.</li><li>Residents of the island have sprung to action providing outreach and aid to those displaced.</li></ul>Rachel Jayne already had a household full of people by the time the volcano began rumbling Thursday night.As Saint Vincent and the Grenadine's long-dormant volcano, <a href="https://www.insider.com/st-vincent-volcano-erupts-thousands-on-caribbean-island-evacuate-2021-4">La Soufrière, roared to life last week</a>, Jayne's friends were among the thousands evacuated from the "red zone" on the main island's Northern tip.Jayne and her guests congregated in her family's home in the South, far from the volcano in the nation's "<a href="https://www.insider.com/hazard-map-shows-st-vincent-danger-volcano-eruption-2021-4">green zone</a>." They heard La Soufrière's rumblings throughout the evening, Jayne told Insider, but continued calmly with preparation efforts, gathering water and storing food.Then, on the morning of Friday, April 9, Jayne said they heard a "massive bang.""It sounded like thunder," she told Insider. "Ten minutes later we looked up and ... it looked like God was coming. It looked like the skies had opened."But it wasn't until the second <keyword id="141991" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="eruption">eruption</keyword>, later Friday morning, that Jayne said she realized "it was serious.""Friday night, that's when it started to look like it was snowing," she said. "It looked like a Christmas card."Five days after the first eruption, the country remains on high alert as Saint Vincentians face uninhabitable conditions wrought by the seismic disaster, as well as ongoing uncertainty amid the unpredictable volcano's continued eruptive activity.<div type="image" title="St Vincent volcano eruption 2" height="1200" width="1600" msid="82057614" hostid="261"></div><h2>La Soufrière started showing warning signs in December 2020 that an eruption was imminent</h2>La Soufrière's history casts a deadly shadow on the island after an eruption in 1902 killed nearly 1,700 people, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/09/world/americas/volcano-St-Vincent-eruption-caribbean.html">The New York Times reported.</a> But before last week, Saint Vincent hadn't seen a volcano eruption since 1979.The <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/dormant-caribbean-volcanoes-become-active-again-residents-warned-2021-1">long-dormant volcano</a> began showing signs of revival again this past December.About four weeks ago, Jayne said Vincentians started to hear from the country's seismic team that a <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/science/environment/news/how-ash-from-st-vincents-volcano-is-covering-the-caribbeans-largest-island-nation/slidelist/82025420.cms">big eruption</a> was on the horizon. Then, on Thursday night, the government ordered roughly 16,000 people in the surrounding area to evacuate from the North, <a href="https://apnews.com/article/la-soufriere-volcano-eruption-st-vincent-caribbean-2c26166fa05e0ec6840669972ea1aaf0">the Associated Press reported.</a>The volcano remained active throughout the weekend, exploding again early Monday morning in the largest eruption yet, which sent pyroclastic flows down the mountain. The island woke to yet another eruption Tuesday morning.There have been no immediate reports of injuries or deaths since the volcano first blew Friday morning, but officials are scrambling to respond to the most recent eruptions, worried about the unknown number of people who chose to remain behind in the red zone, the AP reported.<h2>'Everybody woke up to just ash, everything covered in ash'</h2>Arena Foy, a 23-year-old entrepreneur and influencer in Saint Vincent, told Insider the last few days have been "really hard," and that she feels lucky to be living in a safe part of the island.Foy said Vincentian children learn about La Soufrière at a young age in primary school, but nothing could have prepared her for living through a real eruption."I thought I was somewhat prepared mentally, but as the days go by, I realize ... this is actually really serious," she said. "Never did I think in a million years I would witness or live through a volcanic eruption."After the first eruption Friday, Foy said she saw a "huge cloud of smoke" in the air before the sky turned black."We didn't start to see the effects of the ash until the second day," Foy said. "So everybody woke up to just ash, everything covered in ash."<h2>La Soufrière's ash and debris have traveled far beyond Saint Vincent</h2>Roughly 120 miles due west of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, energy and climate specialist Gerald Lindo woke up Saturday morning to his home in Barbados completely shrouded by ash and dust.Thanks to favorable winds, the first eruption on Friday produced only a "white haze" in the Barbados sky, Lindo told Insider. But then the winds changed "quite dramatically.""You could barely see the sun," Lindo said of his home in South Barbados. "The North had it much much worse. It basically blocked out the sun at several points during the weekend."<div type="image" title="AP21101830461946" height="3000" width="6000" msid="82057618" hostid="261"></div>Lindo said La Soufrière's dome collapsed Monday, a positive sign that indicates any continued eruptions will likely be effusive eruptions, with magma rising to the surface and flowing out of the volcano, as opposed to the destructive, explosive eruptions of the past few days.But nobody knows for sure when the volcano could return to dormancy."It's definitely a waiting game," Lindo said. "It's not up to us. It's up to the volcano."<h2>The eruption has exacerbated the struggles of a country already dealing with the coronavirus pandemic</h2>COVID-19 has complicated the already-challenging response to the natural disaster.Cruise ships have been dispatched to the island to evacuate people to neighboring islands, but <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/st-vincent-volcano-cruise-ship-evacuation-only-for-vaccinated-2021-4">only those who are vaccinated can board</a>, the prime minister announced over the weekend."We were so focused on the pandemic and being safe with the coronavirus situation that I think we just overlooked the whole volcanic eruption," Foy said.The ongoing eruptions have triggered <a href="https://www.insider.com/st-vincent-volcano-another-exploisve-event-results-in-power-cuts-2021-4">power cuts and water outages</a> across the island and Foy said she only has access to water for about 30 minutes each day."There's no power, there's no water, and we're trying to clean and clean as much as we can so the ash doesn't keep blowing and circulate around," Jayne said.<div type="image" title="AP21102643876274" height="1962" width="3926" msid="82057620" hostid="261"></div>Meanwhile, with the North almost completely uninhabitable, shelters have popped up in the South for the thousands of evacuees, many of whom left with only their passport, Jayne said.The ash in the air poses additional breathing problems for the elderly and asthmatic amid a respiratory pandemic, and Jayne said she worries about multiple families congregating together in shelters in the face of COVID-19's easy transmission.<h2>Foy and Jayne both said they've been blown away by the country's response to help those in need</h2>"As soon as this happened, I knew I had to do something," said Jayne, who is trained in community work.She runs an <a href="https://acstore.co.uk/">online store that sells Caribbean foodstuffs</a> and said she immediately opened her <a href="https://www.instagram.com/acstoreuk/">social media</a> up for donations. The response, she said, has been phenomenal.Foy, too, has used her <a href="https://www.instagram.com/rena.slays/">social media platform</a> to post important updates about the volcano, shelters, and humanitarian efforts around the island.She and her friends also started a <a href="https://www.gofundme.com/f/zndj9-help-stvincent?utm_campaign=p_cf+share-flow-1&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=instagramnstagram">GoFundMe</a> to buy food and supplies from supermarkets for those displaced or in shelters."No airplanes, no ships can come in because of all the ash," she said. "So we can only depend on supplies that are in the country right now."Foy spent most of Monday buying diapers, toilet paper, and food in bulk to donate to those in need."I must say, Vincentians have really stepped up to volunteer and help multiple people," she said."Everyone around us has literally opened up their homes ... the community spirit here is great," Jayne said. "There are people on the road sweeping ash in the day, and making pizza to take to people in shelters.""It's just been phenomenal. I've never seen a whole country come together and work to get through something like this."

Saint Vincent residents describe what it was like to wake up to a volcano eruption and share how the country is coming together to rebuild

Devastating images show how ash from St Vincent’s volcano is covering roads, breaking buildings and weighing down trees

<ul class="summary-list"><li>La Soufrière, a <keyword id="6357324" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="Volcano">volcano</keyword> on the <keyword id="6372936" type="LOCATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="caribbean">Caribbean</keyword> island of <keyword id="207711" type="CITY" weightage="60" keywordseo="St-Vincent">St. Vincent</keyword>, is still erupting two weeks after it exploded.</li><li>La Soufrière had been dormant for more than 40 years before it erupted on April 9.</li><li>An image shared by <a href="https://twitter.com/NEMOSVG/status/1385261740015951876">the National Emergency Management Organization of St. Vincent and the Grenadines</a> on Thursday shows a huge plume of ash above the volcano. </li><li>No one has died in the eruption, but <a href="https://www.insider.com/saint-vincent-responds-to-volcanic-eruption-with-outreach-aid-2021-4">thousands have been displaced</a>, NEMO SVG <a href="https://twitter.com/NEMOSVG/status/1384606663781621762">confirmed on Twitter</a>.</li></ul>

Photo shows the La Soufriere volcano on St. Vincent explosively erupting again in the Caribbean

<ul class="summary-list"><li>La Soufriere, a <keyword id="6357324" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="Volcano">volcano</keyword> on the Caribbean island of <keyword id="207711" type="CITY" weightage="60" keywordseo="St-Vincent">St. Vincent</keyword>, erupted on Friday.</li><li>Plumes reached 4.97 miles, and ash spread across the island, local emergency services said.</li><li>It's the volcano's first <keyword id="141991" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="eruption">eruption</keyword> since 1979.</li></ul>La Soufriere, a volcano on the Caribbean island of St. Vincent, has erupted on Friday, the National Emergency Management Organization of St. Vincent and the Grenadines <a href="https://twitter.com/NEMOSVG/status/1380504273100926980">confirmed on Twitter</a>."La Soufriere has moved into an explosive state. Plumes up to eight kilometers," the <a href="https://twitter.com/NEMOSVG/status/1380504273100926980">agency said</a>.NEMO SVG said minutes after the volcano erupted that <a href="https://twitter.com/NEMOSVG/status/1380506219140485129">ash fell at Argyle International Airport</a>, on the other side of the 133-square-mile island.Officials from NEMO encouraged people to leave the "red zone" of the volcano immediately, and as of Friday morning officials were still <a href="https://www.insider.com/st-vincent-evacuated-officials-warn-volcanic-eruption-2021-4">evacuating residents</a> from the island.As ash and smoke spread across the island on Friday afternoon, a second explosion sent ash 2.5 miles into the air, the University of the West Indies Seismic Research Center <a href="https://twitter.com/uwiseismic/status/1380556382827593729">said on Twitter</a>.Friday's eruption marked the first time the mountain has erupted since April 1979.

St. Vincent volcano erupts a day after thousands on the Caribbean island were ordered to evacuate

<ul class="summary-list"><li>La Soufriere volcano in St Vincent first erupted on Friday.</li><li>Another 'explosive event' took place on Sunday.</li><li>Much of the country has limited water supplies and is experiencing <keyword id="6471610" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="power-outages">power outages</keyword>.</li></ul>There has been another "explosive event" at La Soufriere volcano on the Caribbean island of St Vincent, the National Emergency Management Organization of St. Vincent and the Grenadines (Nemo) said on <a href="https://twitter.com/NEMOSVG/status/1381122419654541316">Twitter</a>.The volcano first <a href="https://www.insider.com/st-vincent-volcano-erupts-thousands-on-caribbean-island-evacuate-2021-4">erupted on Friday</a>, scattering ash across the island and resulting in thousands of evacuations.These eruptions could go on for weeks, scientists told the <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-56707956">BBC</a>. The most recent explosion has left the country without power and coated in blankets of <keyword id="140087" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="volcanic-ash">volcanic ash</keyword>."Massive power outage following another explosive event at La Soufriere Volcano. Lightning, thunder, and rumblings. Majority of the country out of power and covered in ash," Nemo wrote on Sunday.Read more: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/congress-stocks-markets-investments-cayman-islands-facebook-2021-4">Rep. Dean Phillips' office explains his investment in a fund based in the Cayman Islands</a>Roads are "treacherous" due to the ash flow, Nemo added.Water supplies to most of the island have been cut off, St Vincent's prime minister Ralph Gonsalves told <a href="https://www.facebook.com/watch/nbcsvg/">NBC News</a>.He urged residents to "save water" due to "limited" supplies, the Independent reported.Thousands of those evacuated on Friday are still sleeping in shelters, Gonsalves told NBC <keyword id="6355005" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="news">News</keyword>.Five ships from the Carnival Cruise Line and Royal Caribbean <keyword id="6356001" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="international">International</keyword> sailed to Saint Vincent to help evacuate people.The Caribbean island went into red alert on Thursday, with Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves ordering an evacuation of all northern districts of the island, which has a population of approximately 100,000.The northern areas are home to around 16,000 people. All have been ordered to leave immediately as they were in the direct path of lava flow and literal fire from the volcano.Each ship is expected to take on board up to 1500 people. They will be transported to neighboring islands that have agreed to house them, according to <a href="https://www.travelweekly.com/Caribbean-Travel/Cruise-lines-rescue-St-Vincent-volcano">Travel Weekly.</a><div type="image" title="Saint Vincent evacuation" height="1200" width="1600" msid="82019227" hostid="261"></div>The ash expelled from the volcano has traveled far, with those in <keyword id="3322" type="COUNTRY" weightage="60" keywordseo="barbados">Barbados</keyword> - over 120 miles away - now being advised to stay indoors.Barbados has sent support to St Vincent. Its armed forces have sent humanitarian assistance and a disaster response mission to the island, the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency wrote on Twitter.Friday's eruption marked the first time the mountain has erupted since April 1979.The volcano's deadliest eruption was in 1902, when 1600 people (predominantly indigenous Caribs) were killed. Shortly after that eruption, Martinique's <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/apr/28/physicalsciences.highereducation">Mount Pelee also erupted and destroyed the town of Saint-Pierre</a>. More than 30,000 people died as a result.

Another 'explosive event' at St Vincent volcano has left the island struggling with power outages, limited water supplies, and blankets of ash

<ul class="summary-list"><li>La Soufriere erupted on the Caribbean island of <keyword id="207711" type="CITY" weightage="60" keywordseo="St-Vincent">St. Vincent</keyword> on Friday morning. </li><li>All of the island is expected to see ash fall from the <keyword id="141991" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="eruption">eruption</keyword>. </li><li>But the southern part of the island will see the least damage, local officials said.</li></ul>A hazard map of the Caribbean island of St. Vincent shows what areas could experience damage from Friday's <keyword id="6357324" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="Volcano">volcano</keyword> eruption.<a href="https://www.insider.com/st-vincent-volcano-erupts-thousands-on-caribbean-island-evacuate-2021-4">La Soufriere erupted on St. Vincent on Friday morning</a> after the local government <a href="https://www.insider.com/st-vincent-evacuated-officials-warn-volcanic-eruption-2021-4">ordered mass evacuations the island.</a>The National Emergency Management Organization of St. Vincent and the Grenadines (NEMO SVG)<a href="https://www.facebook.com/nemosvg/photos/a.365217540188875/2083525418358070/?type=3"> shared a graphic on its Facebook page</a> showing what parts of the 133 square-mile island were at risk of damage from the eruption, highlighting a red area around the volcano as the most hazardous area.The agency said the red zone could see "total destruction from pyroclastic flows, surges and mudflows" and "maximum expected damage from all projectiles.""This zone is likely to experience more than 30 cm (11.8 inches) of ash. During the course of an eruption this zone would be unsuitable for human habitation," the agency added.The volcano is located on the north side of the island, and the southern part of the island will see the least damage, NEMO SVG said.All regions of the island are expected to see ashfall, NEMO SVG said.Officials from the NEMO encouraged people to leave the "red zone" of the volcano <a href="https://twitter.com/NEMOSVG/status/1380506219140485129">immediately after</a> the eruption.As of Friday morning, officials <a href="https://www.insider.com/st-vincent-evacuated-officials-warn-volcanic-eruption-2021-4">were still evacuating residents</a>.

This hazard map shows how much of St. Vincent is in danger from the volcano eruption

<ul class="summary-list"><li>A <keyword id="6357324" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="Volcano">volcano</keyword> called La Soufriere <a href="https://www.insider.com/st-vincent-volcano-erupts-thousands-on-caribbean-island-evacuate-2021-4">erupted on the Caribbean island of St. Vincent on Friday.</a></li><li>The <keyword id="141991" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="eruption">eruption</keyword> sent ash and smoke <a href="https://www.insider.com/hazard-map-shows-st-vincent-danger-volcano-eruption-2021-4">across the 133-square-mile island.</a></li><li>Video from the eruption taken by a researcher at University of the West Indies Seismic Research Center shows plumes of smoke above the volcano.</li></ul>Watch the video here:A second video shows the plume from above:

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This hazard map shows how much of St. Vincent is in danger from the volcano eruption

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