Déjà vu: Might Future Eruptions of Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai Volcano be a Repeat of the Devastating Eruption of Santorini, Greece (1650 BC)?

• 作者: Timothy M.Kusky
• 来源期刊: 地球科学学刊（英文版）
• 年，卷（期）: 2022,（2）
• 所属期刊栏目: Special Issue on Sandstone-Type Uranium Mineralization and Its Metallogenic Background
• 页码范围: 229-235
• 页数: 7页
• 语种: 英文

摘要

The remote Pacific islands nation of Tonga (about 170 is-lands, with a population of 105000), and surrounding countries, are suffering from the damage from one of the largest, most ex-plosive volcanic eruptions in at least several decades, at least since the 1991 eruption of Pinatubo in the Philippines. The data is still coming in from the Jan. 15, 2022 eruption. Initial reports show (remarkably) few casualties, but the islands are still (as of this writing) inaccessible because of thick volcanic ash cover-ings, loss of communication networks, and damage to the main airport. Initial reports are optimistic, but the observations and data are sparse. Tonga needs help, immediately.