Shortly after Christmas 2020, the government of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines issued an alert. “Increased seismic activity,” it read, “has been detected at the volcano located in La Soufriere.” Overnight, the celebrations of the source of our faith quickly yielded to focus on a summit far from Bethlehem.
The eruption of La Soufriere volcano on the eastern Caribbean Island of Saint Vincent began with a series of small earthquakes and tremors and peaked with an eruptive explosion on Friday, April 9, 2021 at 8:41 a.m.