Discovery of the largest historic silicic submarine eruption

It was likely twice the size of the renowned Mount St. Helens eruption of 1980 and perhaps more than 10 times bigger than the more recent 2010 Eyjafjallajökull eruption in Iceland. However, unlike those two events, which dominated world news headlines, in 2012 the daylong submarine silicic eruption...

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Published in:Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union
Main Authors: Carey, Rebecca J., Wysoczanski, Richard, Wunderman, Richard, Jutzeler, Martin
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: 2014
Subjects:
New Zealand
Havre
Eyjafjallajökull
Iceland
Online Access:http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/507245/
https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/507245/1/eost2014EO190001.pdf
https://doi.org/10.1002/2014EO190001
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Summary:It was likely twice the size of the renowned Mount St. Helens eruption of 1980 and perhaps more than 10 times bigger than the more recent 2010 Eyjafjallajökull eruption in Iceland. However, unlike those two events, which dominated world news headlines, in 2012 the daylong submarine silicic eruption at Havre volcano in the Kermadec Arc, New Zealand (Figure 1a; ~800 kilometers north of Auckland, New Zealand), passed without fanfare. In fact, for a while no one even knew it had occurred.

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