Associate Professor Phil Shane | School of Environment, Faculty of Science at Auckland University

Silent for 200 years, Taranaki Maunga could blow with little warning, according to research led by the University of Auckland. Reconstructions of events over about the past 1,000 years showed […]


Silent for 200 years, Taranaki Maunga could blow with little warning, according to research led by the University of Auckland. Reconstructions of events over about the past 1,000 years showed as little as a day to a week of seismic activity before hot magma reached the surface to erupt.

 

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