By: Staff Writer
January 5, 2021
A University of the West Indies top geologist monitoring the La Soufriere volcano on St Vincent and the Grenadines says that the people at the lower level by the coast will be most at risk if the volcano explodes.
of the UWISRC
Dr Richard Robertson, professor of geology and past director of the University of the West Indies Seismic Research Centre (UWISRC), speaking on their YouTube platform updating concerned citizens about the dangers the La Soufriere volcano poses for persons in the immediate area, said: “when it goes explosive, the material goes up into the atmosphere and causes a lot of ash, or one of the dangerous things in the volcano is then that that that column that goes up in the air collapses on itself, and then goes down the body slopes and it reached further out along the lower flank of the volcano.”
When it explodes is when he said people at the “lower flats” and the “coast line” will be at the most risk.
You can watch his full interview here: