In Greenland was more than six times heavier than in Antarctica, where the explosion was first believed to have happened, it was a turning point that made this finding possible.
Dr. William Hutchison told CNN that he was still shocked that an eruption of this magnitude had not been recorded. Perhaps there are accounts of atmospheric phenomena.
Or ash falls in 1831 that are kept in a dusty corner of a Russian or Japanese library. I’m particularly excited about the follow-up effort to examine these data.
The lack of a sizable community to watch explosions in the past is the main reason it took so long to find all of this out.
These explosions indeed occurred in the past, but they weren’t properly recorded. Since many volcanic eruptions occur in isolated locations, many more, like this one, go unrecorded.
