Tavurvur
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| height | 688 m | |
| location | Papua New Guinea | |
| Coordinates | 4 ° 14 '15 " S , 152 ° 12' 40" O | |
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| Type | Stratovolcano | |
| Last eruption | 2014 | |
Tavurvur (formerly called Ghaie ) is a volcano near the city of Rabaul in the east of the island of New Britain, which belongs to Papua New Guinea .
When it erupted on October 7, 2006, an ash cloud was thrown up to 18 kilometers into the stratosphere . The volcano has been continuously active since then. It previously erupted in 1994 along with neighboring Vulcan . At that time, Rabaul was buried under ashes and had to be rebuilt elsewhere. Numerous administrative centers were moved to Kokopo .
The volcano lies within the 8 by 14 km large Rabaul Caldera , which was formed around 550 AD during a massive volcanic eruption with a magnitude of 6 on the volcanic explosion index . It is occasionally debated whether this breakout could be responsible for the 535/536 weather anomaly , but it is controversial.
On August 29, 2014, the volcano erupted again. In addition to local residents who took pictures, a tourist happened to film a Vulcanian eruption (see web links).
Web links
- Rabaul in the Global Volcanism Program of the Smithsonian Institution (English)
- Outbreak on August 29, 2014:
Individual evidence
- ^ Wilhelm Sievers: Allgemeine Länderkunde, small edition. 2. Vol. Leipzig, Vienna (Bibliographical Institute) 1907, p. 341
- ↑ Global Volcanism Program: Rabaul , as of August 10, 2009
- ↑ Volcanic eruption in Papua New Guinea on www.rp-online.de from August 29, 2014, accessed on August 29, 2014