World's most recent supereruption, of Taupō Volcano, New Zealand
Oruanui eruption
Volcano
Taupō Volcano
Date
About 25,700 year BP
Type
Ultra-Plinian
Location
North Island, New Zealand 38°48′S175°54′E / 38.800°S 175.900°E / -38.800; 175.900
Volume
1,170 km3 (280 cu mi)
VEI
8
Impact
Devastated much of North Island with detectable ash fall 5,000 km (3,100 mi) away
Recent vents and caldera structures Taupō Volcano. Present active geothermal systems are in light blue. A key to the vents is in the diagram.
The Oruanui eruption of New Zealand's Taupō Volcano (also known as the Kawakawa eruption or Kawakawa/Oruanui event) was the world's most recent supereruption, and largest phreatomagmatic eruption characterised to date.
The Oruanuieruption of New Zealand's Taupō Volcano (also known as the Kawakawa eruption or Kawakawa/Oruanui event) was the world's most recent supereruption...
extinction. The Oruanuieruption of New Zealand's Taupō Volcano (about 26,500 years ago) was the world's most recent VEI-8 eruption. The term "supervolcano"...
Blake, S.; Charlier, B. L. A.; Sutton, A. N. (2006). "The 26.5 ka OruanuiEruption, Taupo Volcano, New Zealand: Development, Characteristics and Evacuation...
phreatomagmatic eruption characterised to date. This was the Oruanuieruption of the Taupō Volcano about 25,000 years ago, which was the largest eruption on earth...
relatively recent eruptions from the Taupō Volcano are perhaps the best known. Its Oruanuieruption was the world's largest known eruption in the past 70...
area in the country. It lies in a caldera created by the Oruanuieruption, the largest eruption in the world in the past 70,000 years. There are 3,820 lakes...
recent is Lake Taupō's Oruanuieruption, more than 27,000 years ago, which means that there have not been any Holocene eruptions with a VEI of 8. There...
flow. In due course the Hatepe eruption further expanded the lake that had formed after the much larger Oruanuieruption around 26,500 years ago. The previous...
carved into lake floor sediments laid down before Taupō Volcano's Oruanuieruption 26,500 years ago. The volume of water flowing through often approaches...
the Waihou River, Piako River and Waitakaruru River. Prior to the Oruanuieruption 27,000 years ago, the Waikato River also flowed into the Hauraki Gulf...
Supervolcanic eruption, and last known volcanic eruption with a VEI of 8. The eruption of Lake Toba was the biggest volcanic eruption in the Quaternary...
million years ago before returning to its Hinuera course. After the huge Oruanuieruption 27,000 years ago ignimbrite was showered all over the North Island...
Huka which was destroyed in the 25,600 years ago Oruanuieruption.: 541 After the Oruanuieruption there is evidence for a temporary lake in the Reporoa...
1029/JB089iB10p08485. Dunbar, Nelia W Wilson, Colin J. N. (2001). "The 26.5 ka Oruanuieruption, New Zealand: an introduction and overview". Journal of Volcanology...
over by deposits from other eruptive centres such as those of the Oruanuieruption. The caldera can be defined by gravitational measurements as 30 km...
during part of the LGM by the world's most recent supervolcanic eruption, the Oruanuieruption, approximately 28,500 years BP. However, it is estimated that...
fall at the vent. An eruption with a low dispersal index leaves most of its products close to the vent, forming a cone; an eruption with a high dispersal...
Virginia. Manville, Vern & Wilson, Colin J. N. (2004). "The 26.5 ka Oruanuieruption, New Zealand: a review of the roles of volcanism and climate in the...
to 90m above lake level that was formed after the 26,500 years ago Oruanuieruption when initially the new lake flowed out at Waihora 20 km (12 mi) to...
the ash, which drops about 60 m (200 ft) from Karapiro. After the Oruanuieruption, some 26,500 years ago, Lake Taupō was about 145 m (476 ft) above the...
the Taupō Volcano Oruanuieruption it has reduced to 0.26 mm (0.010 in)/year. It is believed to have been activated by this eruption. The current assumed...
Waikato River, the course of which was drastically altered by the Oruanuieruption 25,000 years ago. List of rivers of New Zealand "Place name detail:...
The river's course was altered to its current outflow by the massive Oruanuieruption about 26,500 years ago. A remnant river, the Waitoa River, now flows...
for rhyolitic eruptions about once every 1,000 years. The largest eruption in the last 65,000 years was the cataclysmic OruanuiEruption 26,500 years ago...
such late developers, after all". New Scientist. Mar 28, 2007. "Submarine eruption bled Earth's oceans of oxygen". New Scientist. Jul 16, 2008. Clark, Stuart...
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