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More than 3,000 people are in shelters in St Vincent and the Grenadines and the islands continue to be showered in volcanic ash from the La Soufriere volcano.
Editor-in-chief of Searchlight newspaper Clare Keizer said by noon on Saturday there were reports of about 3,200 people in shelters and those who did not evacuate from the red and orange zones were calling for assistance to leave the area.
She said in the red zones, ash and rubble the size of stones could be found and even in the green zones there was a thick layer of fine ash on exposed surfaces, and the air was uncomfortable to breathe.
Dr Erouscilla Joseph, director of The UWI Seismic Research Centre, on Saturday, said there was continuous ash venting throughout the night from Friday into Saturday.
“Associated with this were seismic signals. We have volcano tectonic earthquakes and long-period events which were recorded during the times of tremor.”
Also at the site, lightning and thunder associated with charged particles in the eruption column was observed.
She added that ash coated the entire area around the volcano and visibility was less than four kilometres as the sun was obscured by the ash and it was “dark as night” on Saturday morning.
[caption id="attachment_883329" align="alignnone" width="1024"] An aerial photo shows Arnos Vale, St Vincent covered in volcanic ash from La Soufriere. Photo courtesy Virad Peters.[/caption]
On Thursday, Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves issued an evacuation order for people in the red zones on the north east and the north west of the island.
La Soufriere first erupted early on Friday and by 7 pm there had been three “explosive events.” It was the first time the volcano erupted since 1979. Joseph said La Soufriere erupted throughout the night on Friday into Saturday, constantly pulsing ash into the atmosphere.

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