Shaken, but not stirred : the 2004 eruption of the Tristan da Cunha volcano

• Main Author: Hards, Vicky
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Macquarie University 2009
• Subjects: Earth Sciences; Tristan; St. Helena; South Atlantic Ocean
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/7137/; https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/7137/1/ShimaHards.pdf; http://www.shimajournal.org/details.html

Overnight on 29-30 July 2004, Tristan da Cunha, a remote volcanic island in the South Atlantic Ocean, was shaken by an intense earthquake swarm. The tremors felt by many of the island’s population evoked memories of events leading up to the 1961 volcanic eruption and the subsequent evacuation of the...