The millennium eruption of Changbaishan Tianchi Volcano is VEI 6, not 7

The Millennium Eruption (AD 946–947) of Changbaishan Tianchi Volcano is one of the largest known eruptions in recorded history. With the help of previously published isopachs and distal ash thicknesses, we re-calculate the bulk volume of its distal eruptive product, the B-Tm ash, as 27–62 km3 and th...

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Main Authors: Yang, Qingyuan, Jenkins, Susanna F., Lerner, Geoffrey A., Li, Weiran, Suzuki, Takehiko, McLean, Danielle, Derkachev, A. N., Utkin, I.V., Wei, Haiquan, Xu, Jiandong, Pan, Bo
Other Authors: Asian School of the Environment
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: 2022
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/160061
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author Yang, Qingyuan
Jenkins, Susanna F.
Lerner, Geoffrey A.
Li, Weiran
Suzuki, Takehiko
McLean, Danielle
Derkachev, A. N.
Utkin, I.V.
Wei, Haiquan
Xu, Jiandong
Pan, Bo
author2 Asian School of the Environment
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Yang, Qingyuan
Jenkins, Susanna F.
Lerner, Geoffrey A.
Li, Weiran
Suzuki, Takehiko
McLean, Danielle
Derkachev, A. N.
Utkin, I.V.
Wei, Haiquan
Xu, Jiandong
Pan, Bo
author_sort Yang, Qingyuan
collection NTU
description The Millennium Eruption (AD 946–947) of Changbaishan Tianchi Volcano is one of the largest known eruptions in recorded history. With the help of previously published isopachs and distal ash thicknesses, we re-calculate the bulk volume of its distal eruptive product, the B-Tm ash, as 27–62 km3 and the total eruption volume as 40–98 km3. The updated volume estimates are around half of those estimated by previous studies of this seminal eruption. Our work shows that the Millennium Eruption is a VEI-6 eruption, rather than VEI-7 as previously envisaged, and its magnitude is also lower than previously thought. This has implications for regional frequency-magnitude relationships and may also partially explain the limited regional, rather than global, climatic effects of the Millennium Eruption.
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spelling ntu-10356/1600612022-07-16T20:11:15Z The millennium eruption of Changbaishan Tianchi Volcano is VEI 6, not 7 Yang, Qingyuan Jenkins, Susanna F. Lerner, Geoffrey A. Li, Weiran Suzuki, Takehiko McLean, Danielle Derkachev, A. N. Utkin, I.V. Wei, Haiquan Xu, Jiandong Pan, Bo Asian School of the Environment Earth Observatory of Singapore Science::Geology Millennium Eruption Changbaishan Tianchi Volcano The Millennium Eruption (AD 946–947) of Changbaishan Tianchi Volcano is one of the largest known eruptions in recorded history. With the help of previously published isopachs and distal ash thicknesses, we re-calculate the bulk volume of its distal eruptive product, the B-Tm ash, as 27–62 km3 and the total eruption volume as 40–98 km3. The updated volume estimates are around half of those estimated by previous studies of this seminal eruption. Our work shows that the Millennium Eruption is a VEI-6 eruption, rather than VEI-7 as previously envisaged, and its magnitude is also lower than previously thought. This has implications for regional frequency-magnitude relationships and may also partially explain the limited regional, rather than global, climatic effects of the Millennium Eruption. Ministry of Education (MOE) National Research Foundation (NRF) Published version Q. Yang, S.F. Jenkins, and G.A. Lerner were partly supported by the National Research Foundation Singapore and the Singapore Ministry of Education under the Research Centres of Excellence initiative (Project Number: NRF2018NRF-NSFC003ES-010). G.A. Lerner was partly supported by the funding from the AXA Joint Research Initiative under the project “Volcanic Risk Assessment in Asia”. J. Xu was partly supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 41861144025). This work forms part of a jointly funded collaboration (NRF-NSFC) between Q. Yang, S.F. Jenkins, and G.A. Lerner at the Asian School of the Environment/Earth Observatory of Singapore at NTU and H. Wei, J. Xu, and B. Pan at the Chinese Earthquake Administration. 2022-07-12T05:03:33Z 2022-07-12T05:03:33Z 2021 Journal Article Yang, Q., Jenkins, S. F., Lerner, G. A., Li, W., Suzuki, T., McLean, D., Derkachev, A. N., Utkin, I., Wei, H., Xu, J. & Pan, B. (2021). The millennium eruption of Changbaishan Tianchi Volcano is VEI 6, not 7. Bulletin of Volcanology, 83(11). https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00445-021-01487-8 0258-8900 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/160061 10.1007/s00445-021-01487-8 2-s2.0-85117710613 11 83 en NRF2018NRF-NSFC003ES-010 Bulletin of Volcanology © 2021 The Authors. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons. org/licenses/by/4.0/. application/pdf
spellingShingle Science::Geology
Millennium Eruption
Changbaishan Tianchi Volcano
Yang, Qingyuan
Jenkins, Susanna F.
Lerner, Geoffrey A.
Li, Weiran
Suzuki, Takehiko
McLean, Danielle
Derkachev, A. N.
Utkin, I.V.
Wei, Haiquan
Xu, Jiandong
Pan, Bo
The millennium eruption of Changbaishan Tianchi Volcano is VEI 6, not 7
title The millennium eruption of Changbaishan Tianchi Volcano is VEI 6, not 7
title_full The millennium eruption of Changbaishan Tianchi Volcano is VEI 6, not 7
title_fullStr The millennium eruption of Changbaishan Tianchi Volcano is VEI 6, not 7
title_full_unstemmed The millennium eruption of Changbaishan Tianchi Volcano is VEI 6, not 7
title_short The millennium eruption of Changbaishan Tianchi Volcano is VEI 6, not 7
title_sort millennium eruption of changbaishan tianchi volcano is vei 6 not 7
topic Science::Geology
Millennium Eruption
Changbaishan Tianchi Volcano
url https://hdl.handle.net/10356/160061
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