 Lead scientist on the monitoring team for the La Souffaire Volcano, Dr. Richard Robertson says the increase in seismic events started Tuesday, 23 March 2021. What is concerning for the scientists is the changes taking place with the magma, which is not known. This, he said, can either make the new lava dome grow faster or lead to an explosive eruption. He spoke to Rochelle Baptis of SVG TV News. Often, in the classic case of how eruptions go, you would tend to have these earthquakes before the magma gets to the surface. So normally you'll have these earthquakes before the eruptions started last December. But this eruption started very localized, very much at the top, and not doing very much earthquakes. But now it has the earthquakes that it should have had before, which tells us that something is coming. The thing that was happening before was probably something that was more shallow and fed by something very close to the surface. But now you have something coming from deeper down. And when that gets involved, the chances that you have material that could become much more energetic and either cause the dome to go faster or cause it to go into explosion, the chances of that happening has increased. And therefore, the chances of your getting to see an explosive eruption is probably marginally increased because of the seismicity we have been on. So that's why we have to keep our close eye on it.