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)
SO2 plume above Jebel Zubair 28 Sep 2013
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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- Eruption sous-marine au Jebel Zubair (Blog Culture Volcan)
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