'Hindcasting' the stomp-rocket eruptions of Kīlauea volcano in 2018 helped scientists discover a new mechanism behind back-to-back eruptions.
In an effort to ‘hindcast’ past volcanic eruptions, volcanologists recently aimed to better predict future eruptions, allowing for more accurate warnings and potentially saving many lives.
The explosive eruptions at Kīlauea’s summit were part of a series of events, including lava flows from the volcano’s lower flanks, which destroyed thousands of homes and displaced residents on the Island of Hawai’i for months. “These eruptions are quite interesting in that they don’t really seem to involve either of those,” Crozier said. “The eruptive material contained very little that looked like fresh magma that was blasted out, but there’s no evidence for significant groundwater being involved, either.”
“A cool thing about these eruptions is that there were a bunch of them in sequence that were remarkably similar; that’s relatively unusual,” noted Leif Karlstrom, a volcanologist at the UO. “Typically, volcanic eruptions don’t happen with as much regularity.”
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