Volcanos

The volcano La Soufrière has erupted on the Caribbean island of St. Vincent. An explosive eruption was registered on the mountain in the north of the island, the disaster control authority Nemo announced on Friday. A column of smoke up to eight kilometers high was building up over the volcano. A shower of ash is to be expected, it said. Subterranean tremors had previously been detected at the volcano, indicating that magma was moving towards the earth's surface.

The government of the island state of St. Vincent and the Grenadines had already begun evacuating the so-called Red Zone around the volcano on Thursday. In 1902, an eruption of La Soufrière killed about 1,500 people. The current volcanic activity began last December, according to Nemo.

Not far from the Icelandic capital Reykjavik, the Fagradalsfjall volcano has erupted. According to the Meteorological Service of the island state, only slight seismological shocks were measured on Saturday night. Nevertheless, the surface of the volcano cracked over a length of 500 metres and small lava fountains sprayed upwards. A glowing stream of liquid rock poured out along the mountain flanks, reportedly reaching a size of about one square kilometre.

Mount Etna erupted for the second time this month Tuesday evening. Etna is one of the most active stratovolcano, located on the east coast of Sicily, Italy, in the Metropolitan City of Catania. Due to ash in the air, the Catania international airport was closed.

Stefano Branco, the head of the INGV National Institute for Geophysics and Vulcanology, said that they had "seen worse" and that the activity was "not at all worrying."

The Kilauea volcano on Hawaii’s Big Island has erupted late Sunday night following a magnitude-4.4 earthquake. The Kilauea Volcano observatory raised the alert level to "warning" and the Hawaii County Civil Defense Agency (COH) has asked residents to stay indoors

Located on Sumatra Island, the Mount Sinabung volcano has erupted in Indonesia on Sunday with a second eruption on Monday.

Indian authorities have stated that the ashes from the volcano have reached multiple miles high and pose a risk of poisoning for the nearby population.

The volcano has erupted multiple times since last year before it had been inactive for 400 years. No injuries or fatalities caused by the last eruption have been reported.