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The good news is that the entire Caribbean doesn't have volcanoes since they are all found on the Lesser Antilles. The bad news is that these volcanoes, many of which dormant for years, are basically waking up.
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Residents of St. Vincent and the Grenadines have been told to remain alert a Caribbean volcano came back to life.
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Steam, gas, and a volcanic dome formed by lava that reached the earth's surface could also be seen above the volcano, according to the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA).
However, the most active volcanoes in the Americas have been the Soufrière Hills in Montserrat, which have erupted continuously since 1995 and killed at least 19 people in 1997, Erik Klemetti, a volcanologist from Denison University, Ohio, told AP.
Additional bad news related to those volcanoes is a fault line that runs from Dominica along the Atlantic to Haiti/DR. Its an offshoot of that fault line which caused the Haitian earthquake. Bad news is that if this fault line acts up we can see tsunamis. This has happened before with the last ones impacting PR/USVI in the late 19th C.
Thoughts and prayers for the Caribbean. They can ill afford disasters given the impacts of the pandemic. On top of this a bad hurricane season is being forecast for 2021.
These are all the volcanoes and their names in the Caribbean.
Except the ones further south, when a volcano erupts ashes will reach places like Puerto Rico and parts of the DR, though its very light unlike the "ash rain" in the islands where it happens. People that suffer diseases like asthma will feel it.
The same happens with Sahara dust, but that's from massive dust storms that blow offshore in the Sahara Desert in Africa and the tradewinds carry them across the Atlantic. I think most islands receive them, though in the worst case the day will be somewhat murky or there is a haze, the sun will appear with an orange tint and people that suffer from asthma will have more asthma attacks. Some Sahara dust makes it as far as Central America, though I don't know if it gets there with the same intensity.
The good news is that the entire Caribbean doesn't have volcanoes since they are all found on the Lesser Antilles. The bad news is that these volcanoes, many of which dormant for years, are basically waking up
That’s not true. It’s that those in the Greater Antilles are not active...yet. That can change at any time.
That’s not true. It’s that those in the Greater Antilles are not active...yet. That can change at any time.
Its not "not active," its "extinct" as in exist no more and stopped existing millions of years ago. There were dinosaurs roaming the earth when they were around. Nothing that is extinct becomes active or alive again. Anyone that waits for a volcano to erupt in say Puerto Rico will be waiting for a very long time.
Additional bad news related to those volcanoes is a fault line that runs from Dominica along the Atlantic to Haiti/DR. Its an offshoot of that fault line which caused the Haitian earthquake. Bad news is that if this fault line acts up we can see tsunamis. This has happened before with the last ones impacting PR/USVI in the late 19th C.
There are earthquakes multiple times a year felt in many areas of the DR because there isn't one fault line, but many. The fault line that lies close to Port-au-Prince and the fault line off the northcoast of the DR and ironically gets closer to shore near the border and enters land in northern Haiti has nothing to do with each other. Unlike that fault line which creates various earthquakes, the strongest one in 2003, off the north coast, the fault line near Port-au-Prince remains inactive for hundreds of years, but when it goes off it does it in a major way. That's why the 2010 earthquake there caught people by surprised, many having lived their entire lives in the Port-au-Prince vicinity not knowing the ground shakes. Even government buildings were constructed not taking into account sismic activity, unlike most buildings in the DR. The last time it went off prior to 2010 was in the 1700's when the French ruled. During that same time a massive earthquake hit Chile and basically nothing happened there regarding building collapses and lives losts, but buildings in Chile are mostly built taking into account sismic activity.
Anyway, don't know what that has to do with volcanoes. It's like talking about hurricanes in this thread and noticing that the greatest risks are in the Lesser Antilles and some islands in the western Caribbean like Cuba. Islands such as Hispaniola has one of the lowest hurricane risks in the region, considerably lower than Florida, and many parts are basically protected from these storms by the way the mountains are located.
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