Authors: Carole Berthod, Etienne Médard, Patrick Bachèlery, Lucia Gurioli, Andrea Di Muro, Aline Peltier, Jean-Christophe Komorowski, Mhammed Benbakkar, Jean-Luc Devidal, Jessica Langlade, Pascale Besson, Georges Boudon, Estelle Rose-Koga, Christine Deplus, Anne Le Friant, Manon Bickert, S. Nowak, Isabelle Thinon, Pierre Burckel, Samia Hidalgo, Melanie Kaliwoda, Stephan J. Jorry, Yves Fouquet, Nathalie Feuillet
Venue: Earth and Planetary Science Letters
Type: Publication
Abstract: Co-auteur étranger; International audience; Deep-sea submarine eruptions are the least known type of volcanic activity, due to the difficulty of detecting, monitoring, and sampling them. Following an intense seismic crisis in May 2018, a large submarine effusive eruption offshore the island of Mayotte (Indian Ocean) has extruded at least 6.5 km3 of magma to date, making it the largest monitored submarine eruption as well as the largest effusive eruption on Earth since Iceland's 1783 Laki eruption. This volcano is located along a WNW-ESE volcan...
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Topics: 
Seismology
Geochemistry
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