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Jebel Zubair (Red Sea, Jemen): new submarine volcanic eruption

Sun, 29 Sep 2013, 11:38 11:38 AM | BY: T
Steam plume and discolored water around the new submarine eruption site (NASA / Terra satellite image 28 Sep, annotated by Blog Culture Volcan)
Steam plume and discolored water around the new submarine eruption site (NASA / Terra satellite image 28 Sep, annotated by Blog Culture Volcan)
SO2 plume above Jebel Zubair 28 Sep 2013
SO2 plume above Jebel Zubair 28 Sep 2013
A submarine eruption started yesterday (28 Sep) NW of the island Jebel Zubair and SW of the site of the 2011-12 eruption. The activity manifestated itself in form of a strong SO2 anomaly and steam plume spotted on satellite imagery.
No signs of activity are visible on images taken on 27 Sep, which confirms that the eruption started yesterday.
The presence of the significant steam plume suggests that the eruption vent is a shallow depth (less than 100 m), and possibly in the stage of producing so-called surtseyan activity (violent steam-driven explosions breach the surface with jets of water and steam, and become more and more rich in lava fragments as the vent becomes shallower). often

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The new island in the Red Sea on 7 Jan 2012 (NASA Earth Observatory)
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Jebel Zubair volcano
shield volcano 191 m / 627 ft
Red Sea (Yemen), 15.16°N / 42.1°E
Current status: normal or dormant (1 out of 5) Jebel Zubair volcano eruptions:
2011 Dec - Jan 2012, 1846 (?), 1824
Typical eruption style
effusive
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