Talk:Tavurvur

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hi —Preceding unsigned comment added by 163.150.55.197 (talk) 15:57, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

Late 6th century super-eruption?
From this link:

http://arstechnica.com/science/2014/09/move-over-iceland-tavurvur-in-papua-new-guinea-is-the-volcano-to-watch/

...I read the following:

"It revealed that, over the past 7,000 years, a number of huge, highly explosive eruptions had occurred. These cataclysms hollowed out Rabaul caldera. The largest of them occurred in the late 6th century, and is believed to have generated pyroclastic flows—that of hot gas, ash and rocks blown out of a volcano—reaching at least 50km from Rabaul. This massive eruption probably had a volcanic explosivity index of six, which is equivalent to that of the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa. And yet, while the former lives in infamy, relatively few people have even heard of Rabaul."

Any input on that?

108.41.4.101 (talk) 19:04, 3 September 2014 (UTC)