Sulphur Dioxide emissions from La Soufriere volcano reaches India

World Meteorological Organization stated that the Sulphur dioxide (SO2) emissions from the La Soufriere volcano eruption in St Vincent and the Grenadines have reached all the way to India. The distance between St Vincent and India is around 8,872 miles.

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Volcanic "quills can cause flight and air quality risks. The injection height is required to initialise prediction models that forecast the downwind development of the plume," Ralph Kahn, a climatologist at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), announced in a release on NASA's Earth Observatory Website.

NASA's Earth Observatory website stated that there are currently 45 eruption volcanoes on Earth; however, the La Soufriere volcano is among those that are stressing the volcanologists the highest.

Tech volcanologist Simon Carn at NASA stated that the current study is that a volcano requires to inject at least five teragrams (5,000,000,000 kilograms) of sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere to have measured climate impacts,"

According to NASA, after about a week of explosive eruptions, satellite measurements show La Soufriere has delivered about 0.4 – 0.6 teragrams of sulfur dioxide to the upper atmosphere. While India subcontinent is the Asia and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines in the Lesser Antilles, it is highly unlikely for the impact to reach this far; the cause is anticipated to be the climate-change crisis tumbling on the world. Scientists continue to study the harmful effects of the massive eruption at the La Soufriere volcano that is going on for almost two weeks now. The entire St Vincent is covered under the thick layer of volcanic ashes, and even the neighbouring island of Barbados is in extreme need of cleaning due to the ashfall.

The University of West Indies reported on Tuesday evening that there had been no seismic tremors in the La Soufriere volcano for 12 hours; however, the eruption continues, and the alert remains to be red.