Underestimated risk of a major volcanic eruption within the next century
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Scientists point to the largest-ever documented eruption of the underwater volcano Hunga Tonga as evidence
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It occurred in the Tonga archipelago on January 14 and 15, 2022
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90% of the deserted island was destroyed that day, and the ash plume that arose blanketed nearly half of France
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The study examined sulphur residues in samples of old ice
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It would occur more frequently than originally anticipated and be ten hundred times bigger than the explosion in Tonga
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The most recent one, magnitude 7, struck Indonesia in 1815 and killed 100,000 people
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The volcano caused a subsequent average one-degree reduction in global temperatures
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the demise of those civilizations due to starvation, rebellions, and epidemics... The year 1816 even has the moniker "the year without summer."
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The possibility of such an occurrence is compared by the global risk expert to that of an asteroid impacting Earth that is one kilometre wide
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