{"id":1329,"date":"2010-01-08T14:05:11","date_gmt":"2010-01-08T20:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/?p=1329"},"modified":"2010-01-08T14:05:11","modified_gmt":"2010-01-08T20:05:11","slug":"montserrat-soufriere-volcano-dome-collapses-people-urged-to-evacuate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/news\/regional\/montserrat-soufriere-volcano-dome-collapses-people-urged-to-evacuate\/","title":{"rendered":"MONTSERRAT: Soufriere volcano dome collapses, people urged to evacuate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/news_245224388_5961323035.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1330\" title=\"news_245224388_596132303\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/news_245224388_5961323035.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"133\" \/><\/a>BRADES, Montserrat, CMC \u2013 Scientists monitoring the Soufriere Hills Volcano Friday reported a \u201clarge pyroclastic flow\u201d of hot rock, ash and gas on the northern section of the island and urged persons within the area to evacuate immediately.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere has been a pretty large pyroclastic flow, probably a dome collapse. We don\u2019t know the true size of the collapse at the moment, but we do know that pryoclastic flows have probably reached the sea,\u201d said the director of the Montserrat Volcano Observatory (MVO) Dr. Paul Cole.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the state-owned Radio Montserrat, a few minutes after the incident, Cole urged persons in the area to evacuate to safer zones and that only essential service workers should travel towards the volcano site.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is quite possible that the pyroclastic flows are continuing. So anybody who is in the vicinity\u2026should proceed to higher grounds,\u201d he said, adding \u201cwe have advised people to evacuate\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Since the start of the year, the scientists have been reporting that the \u201cmorphology of the summit of the lava dome is changing quite rapidly\u201d and that although some of the dome is obscured by clouds, there is a clear significant addition of lava on the northern side.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInitial estimates suggest that this is approximately 60 meters high and more than 100 meters wide,\u201d the MVO said in a bulletin this week, adding that recent photographs \u201cdemonstrate that the size and shape of the lava dome can change rapidly and that a significant amount of lava has been added to the summit region of the northern part of the lava dome over the last three days.<br \/>\n\u201cClearly such addition of lava increases the potential volume that can collapse to form pyroclastic flows on the northern flank, such as down Tyers Ghaut,\u201d it warned.<\/p>\n<p>Cole said it was for this reason that the authorities have maintained a \u201cLevel Four\u201d alert in order to prevent persons from entering the danger zones associated with the volcano that first began erupting in 1995.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is quite clear and I don\u2019t think it needs spelling out to people what happened this afternoon. This is the reason why we have a level four and we cannot go down to a level two,\u201d he said noting that overnight there had been activity within the volcano.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026it says something clearly that\u2019s why we are on level four and exactly what can happen with this volcano with dome collapses. 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