Undersea Volcano Called Kick 'Em Jenny Rumbling Off Grenada, Poses No Threat To Territory
- Staff
- July 23, 2015
NOAA’s National Tsunami Warning Center at Alaska and the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center at Hawaii are continuously monitoring seismic activity and tide gauges near the Kick’ Em Jenny volcano, an underwater volcano located approximately 5 miles north of Grenada. According to the warning centers, the volcano currently poses no imminent threat to the US Virgin Islands, a press release issued by the Virgin Islands Territorial Emergency Management Agency (VITEMA) has made known. “There is no imminent threat from the volcano in terms of tsunami generation for the US Virgin Islands,” said Christa von Hillebrandt-Andrade, Manager of the NOAA-NWS Caribbean Tsunami Warning Program at Puerto Rico, during a conference call with VITEMA Director Mona Barnes. “This volcano is quite a ways below water and it would take quite a powerful eruption for it to generate a tsunami.” Since its discovery in the 1930s, Kick 'em Jenny has erupted beneath the surface of the Caribbean Sea at least 12 times, mo...
