Geophysical examination of the 27 April 2016 Whakaari/White Island, New Zealand, eruption and its implications for vent physiognomies and eruptive dynamics

• Published in: Earth, Planets and Space
• Main Authors: Braden Walsh, Jonathan Procter, Ivan Lokmer, Johannes Thun, Tony Hurst, Bruce Christenson, Arthur Jolly
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: SpringerOpen 2019
• Subjects: Amplitude source location; Infrasound; Source migration; Volcanic acoustic–seismic ratio; White Island; Geography. Anthropology. Recreation; G; Geodesy; QB275-343; Geology; QE1-996.5; New Zealand
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1186/s40623-019-1003-0; https://doaj.org/article/2049320e96384eb9b52d73e92b3820c3

Abstract At approximately 09:36 UTC on 27 April 2016, a phreatic eruption occurred on Whakaari Island (White Island) producing an eruption sequence that contained multiple eruptive pulses determined to have occurred over the first 30 min, with a continuing tremor signal lasting ~ 2 h after the pulsi...