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 Eyjafjallajkull eruption in Iceland. However, unlike those two events, which dominated world news headlines, in 2012 the daylong submarine silicic eruption a...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union
Main Authors: Carey, RJ, Wysoczanski, R, Wunderman, R, Jutzeler, M
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2014
Subjects:
Earth Sciences
Geology
Volcanology
Havre
New Zealand
Iceland
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1002/2014EO190001
http://ecite.utas.edu.au/91375
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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 Eyjafjallajkull 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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