Submarine eruptions are volcano eruptions which take place beneath the surface of water. These occur at constructive margins, subduction zones, and within...
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and submarine, then Strombolian, followed by Vulcanian and Surtseyan. The stronger eruptive types are Pelean eruptions, followed by Plinian eruptions; the...
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these can discharge material into the atmosphere during an eruption. The total number of submarine volcanoes is estimated to be over one million (most are...
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Axial Seamount (section 1998 eruption)
following the seismic detection of a submarine eruption at the volcano in January 1998, the first time a submarine eruption had been detected and followed in...
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2021, an eruption began on Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai, a submarine volcano in the Tongan archipelago in the southern Pacific Ocean. The eruption reached...
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Santorini caldera (category Submarine calderas)
during the Minoan eruption. Palea Kameni and Nea Kameni were formed as a result of multiple, initially submarine, smaller eruptions at the center of the...
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Iriomote. The Captain Kano concluded that this was the product of a submarine eruption and diverted its course from east towards Ishigaki Island to north-northeast...
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an incomplete list of volcanic eruptions in Iceland. Please see External links below for databases of Icelandic eruptions which include over 530 events...
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2023). "A year on, we know why the Tongan eruption was so violent. It's a wake-up call to watch other submarine volcanoes". The Conversation. Retrieved...
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eruption, which destroyed over 70% of the island and its surrounding archipelago, afterwards collapsing itself into a caldera. The 27 August eruption...
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Basalt (section Submarine eruptions)
Above this depth, submarine eruptions are often explosive, tending to produce pyroclastic rock rather than basalt flows. These eruptions, described as Surtseyan...
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seen off the coast of La Restinga. A small submarine eruption had begun, 2 km south of La Restinga. Eruption 'jacuzzis', occasionally reaching 10–15 metres...
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Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai (category Volcanic eruptions in Oceania)
and to an unknown tropical eruption in 1108 CE that had produced 1 °C of global cooling. On 16 March 2009, a submarine eruption near Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai...
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The 1808 mystery eruption is one or potentially multiple unidentified volcanic eruptions that resulted in a significant rise in stratospheric sulfur aerosols...
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Zubair Group (section 1824 eruption)
a crater lake. On September 28, 2013, a new submarine eruption began southwest of the 2011–2012 eruption site, with water discoloration and a significant...
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Seamount (redirect from Submarine mountain)
Hotspot (geology) List of submarine volcanoes Marine protected area Mud volcano Oceanic trench Submarine eruption Submarine volcano Topographic prominence...
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listing published in October 2022. The Capelinhos eruption represented the first time that a submarine eruption was documented from beginning to end. Its location...
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magma movements and can indicate that an eruption has begun. Later the same day a small submarine eruption began, 7 km south of La Restinga. On 11 October...
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Volcano (section Volcanic eruptions)
water prevents the explosive release of steam and gases; however, submarine eruptions can be detected by hydrophones and by the discoloration of water...
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eruptions by human death toll. Lists of disasters List of volcanic eruption deaths List of natural disasters by death toll List of volcanic eruptions...
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Didicas Volcano (section Eruption history)
have been six historical eruptions recorded from the volcano since the 18th century. 1773: The first recorded submarine eruption from the volcano, on what...
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subaerial eruption types, including Plinian, Peléan and Hawaiian eruptions. Subaerial eruptions contrast with subaqueous, submarine and subglacial eruptions which...
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The 1955 Hawaiian submarine eruption was a submarine eruption that occurred 90 km (56 mi) northeast of Necker Island on August 20, 1955. Steaming water...
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The Minoan eruption was a catastrophic volcanic eruption that devastated the Aegean island of Thera (also called Santorini) circa 1600 BCE. It destroyed...
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The 2012 Kermadec Islands eruption was a major undersea volcanic eruption that was produced by the previously little-known Havre Seamount near the L'Esperance...
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A limnic eruption, also known as a lake overturn, is a very rare type of natural hazard in which dissolved carbon dioxide (CO2) suddenly erupts from deep...
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Volcanism of Italy (section Significant eruptions)
coast of Tunisia, probably last erupted around 1,000 BC. There was a submarine eruption a few kilometres north-east of the island in 1891, which was probably...
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Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS). Twenty-one of these have had historical eruptions. The three exceptions are Cabalian, which is a strongly fumarolic volcano;[further...
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Ahyi Seamount (category Submarine volcanoes)
"Hydroacoustic, Seismic, and Bathymetric Observations of the 2014 Submarine Eruption at Ahyi Seamount, Mariana Arc". Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems...
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Volcanic tsunami (section Volcanic eruptions)
This includes volcanic earthquakes, caldera collapse, explosive submarine eruptions, the effects of pyroclastic flows and lahars on water, base surges...
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