I posted the previous entry from my PDA, so couldn’t do much hyperlinking or Googling about the Montserrat situation, but I’m back at the hotel on my laptop. Not finding anything about the dome of the Soufriere Hills Volcano collapsing on Google News, but the Monsterrat Volcano Observatory web site has a photo of the lava dome taken on May 18, and an activity report for the period May 12-19 which says that:
Lava extrusion has continued throughout the reporting period. There is now a broad spine in the southern summit area of the dome. . .
and that:
Residents of Montserrat and visitors to the island are advised to tune into ZJB Radio for up-to-date information on the volcano. Access to all areas south of Richmond Hill, and south of Jack Boy Hill to Bramble airport and beyond is prohibited at all times….
A gentleman here at the hotel just said that the American Airlines flight out of Miami has not even left Miami as yet. Montserrat is about 60 miles from St. Kitts, from where I write this….
If anybody reading this has other information, please leave a comment or send me an e-mail.
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[...] Nicholas Laughlin and Georgia Popplewell are reporting “significant activity” from the Soufriere Hills Volcano in Montserrat — lava dome collapse and ash eruption: “The first release, at 10.30 this morning, announced “increased activity” at the volcano, with the collapse of the lava dome at about 7.20 a.m. and a pyroclastic flow which reached the sea on the eastern side of the island, with “heavy ashing”. It’s expected that this could go on for several hours, and there is some threat of explosive activity and more pyroclastic flows. There is also some threat of tsunami activity triggered by these flows reaching the sea, and small tsunamis have apparently been reported already from Antigua and Guadeloupe (the nearest inhabited islands to Montserrat). The people of Montserrat have been advised to stay indoors and “remain vigilant”, but there is no immediate danger. [...]
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