Eruption of Soufriere St. Vincent

When

9 Apr 2021

Kind

Volcanic eruption

Where

St. Vincent & the Grenadines

Coordinates

13.33° N, 61.18° W

Vei

4

Damage musd

325

Volcano type

Stratovolcano

Volcanic eruption in the Caribbean

La Soufrière, a stratovolcano on the Caribbean island of Saint Vincent in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, began an effusive eruption on 27 December 2020. On 9 April 2021 there was an explosive eruption, and the volcano "continued to erupt explosively" over the following days, with pyroclastic flows.

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• NCEI significant earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptionsNOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationPublic domainSource page
• Smithsonian GVP Volcanoes of the World: Holocene eruptionsGlobal Volcanism Program, Smithsonian InstitutionSmithsonian terms of use: personal, educational and non-commercial use, with creditGlobal Volcanism Program, Smithsonian Institution: Volcanoes of the World v5.3, https://doi.org/10.5479/si.GVP.VOTW5-2025.5.3Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “An explosive eruption of the volcano La Soufrière is forcing the evacuation of thousands of people”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Arabic), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “إخلاء أكثر من 20 ألف مواطن من جزيرةسانت فينسنت، بعد تفجر بركان لا سوفريير الذي كان خامدًا منذ عام 1979”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page

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