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A world staff of scientists has found {that a} 726 AD eruption of the Santorini volcano was loads larger than initially estimated, pointing to an “elevated hazard potential.”
Revealed within the Nature Geoscience journal on Monday, the research’s findings change “the prevailing view that Kameni Volcano has been in a predominately effusive state for the reason that Minoan eruption and implies that the Santorini volcanic system has been able to producing extremely explosive eruptions in its present early stage within the caldera cycle,” the paper says.
The staff’s evaluation, based mostly on drilling carried out as a part of the Worldwide Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) Expedition 398, discovered that the magnitude of the 726 AD eruption was better than assumed and that pumice from the blast might have traveled all the best way to the coast of Asia Minor.
“Our outcomes reveal that Kameni Volcano has been able to producing a significant VEI 5 explosive eruption within the current previous. This adjustments the prevailing view that Kameni Volcano has been in a predominately effusive state for the reason that Minoan eruption and implies that the Santorini volcanic system has been able to producing extremely explosive eruptions in its present early stage within the caldera cycle,” the paper argues.
“An identical eruptive occasion right now would have extreme penalties not just for the inhabitants of Santorini and its neighboring islands but in addition for the broader japanese Mediterranean,” it says.
“Eruption phenomena might embody tsunamis generated by submarine explosions, in depth pumice rafts and enormous airborne ash plumes with important impacts on coastal communities, aviation, maritime transportation and submarine cables,” it provides.