A destructive tsunami once struck New Zealand, wiping out several coastal towns. However, this tsunami was not caused by a major earthquake, but rather a largely hidden volcanic eruption. This is the story of New Zealand's Healy Seamount, which is one of three volcanoes north of New Zealand's north island but south of Tonga to have produced a caldera forming eruption during the Holocene epoch.
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Note: This video's thumbnail image attempts to display what the early 15th century caldera forming eruption of the Healy Seamount volcano might have looked like.
A special thanks to: Shane Cronin, Sung-Hyun Park, & Marta Ribo for providing video footage of the volcano via scans of the seafloor before and after (with the after containing footage of its new caldera)
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Sources/Citations:
[1] (1991) The age and stratigraphic significance of sea-rafted Loisels Pumice
in northern New Zealand, Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 21:4, 357-371, DOI:
10.1080/03036758.1991.10420833
[2] Geonet
[3] Source of Volcanic Explosivity Index (VEI) methodology and criteria: Newhall, C. G., and Self, S. (1982), The volcanic explosivity index (VEI) an estimate of explosive magnitude for historical volcanism, J. Geophys. Res., 87(C2), 1231–1238, doi:10.1029/JC087iC02p01231. Accessed / Read by / geologyhub on Oct 5th, 2022.
[4] VEIs, dates/years, composition, bulk tephra volume for volcanic eruptions shown in this video which were assigned a VEI 4 or larger are sourced from the LaMEVE database (British Geological Survey © UKRI), https://www2.bgs.ac.uk/vogripa/view/c..., Used with Permission
0:00 A Forgotten Tsunami
2:22 Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai
2:53 Caldera Formation
3:44 Similar Eruptions
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