Still, University of Auckland volcanologist Professor Shane Cronin said we don’t know enough about the risk posed by the 80-or-so undersea volcanoes in our wider region. “The reason why submarine ...
Most volcanism on Earth occurs beneath the oceans, but submarine volcanoes are difficult to study. Advances in seafloor monitoring have opened up an unprecedented view of eruptions on the seabed.
Charlotte Lytton and Matthew Abbott traveled to Tonga to report this story. All photographs were made in May 2023. Sept. 1 at 6:00 a.m. Warning: This graphic requires ...
1a) and one on the sea floor. The caldera of the volcano on land is just under a kilometre wide, whereas the submarine volcano has an even larger caldera with a diameter of well over 2 kilometres.
it's possible we'll discover unknown underwater volcanoes. 19:58 There are many things we don't understand, and it's a lot of work, but it's an exciting field. Approximately 60% of the world's ...
An eruption of a submarine volcano called Funka Asane in the Ogasawara island chain was detected on March 27, prompting a warning for ash and rocks as well as floating pumice to be issued.
The Asahi Shimbun's Asuka aircraft flew to Fukutoku-Okanoba, a submarine volcano in the Ogasawara island chain, on Oct. 15 to observe the fast-disappearing outcrop. A geological expert ...