科學家發(fā)現比較大的水下火山爆發(fā)

Scientists claim to have recorded the largest ever underwater volcanic eruption, off the coast of Africa.

科學家聲明，記錄到了非洲海岸有史以來最大的水下火山噴發(fā)。

The discovery was made after seafloor maps from a research mission revealed a new volcano formation made up of five cubic kilometres of erupted magma, Science magazine reports.

《科學》雜志報道，通過海底地圖，可以發(fā)現這海底火山已噴出5立方公里巖漿。

The underwater volcano is said to have formed over a period of six months and is 800m high and 5kms wide.

而這座海底火山的生成只用了短短6個月時間，離海底約為0.8公里，直徑為5公里。

The detection came after a strange seismic event in November last year near the island of Mayotte in the Indian Ocean between Madagascar and Mozambique.For the past 12 months, the 250,000 residents of the French island had been experiencing a series of small earthquakes almost daily, Science magazine reports.

去年11月，在馬達加斯加和莫桑比克之間的印度洋馬約特島附近，發(fā)生了一次奇怪的地震事件。在之后12個月里，這座法國島嶼上的25萬居民幾乎每天都會經歷一系列小地震。

The French government launched a scientific mission in June 2018 involving the ship Marion Dufresne.

在2018年6月，法國政府啟動了一項Marion Dufresne號科考任務，在這一任務中發(fā)現了此次火山噴發(fā)。

“We have never seen anything like this,” Nathalie Feuillet, a lead researcher on the Marion Dufresne and the Institute of Geophysics in Paris told the magazine.

船上的巴黎地球物理研究所科學家Nathalie Feuillet表示，我從未見過這樣的事情。

The ship’s sonar detected trails of “bubble-rich” water rising from the volcano. When crew members from the Marion Dufresne combed rocks from the volcano they released high-pressure gas.

船上的聲納探測到從火山口涌出的“泡沫豐富”的水跡。當MarionDufresne號的船員們從火山上梳理巖石時，巖石身上釋放出了高壓氣體。

“They were popping as we brought them on board,” Feuillet said.

“我們把巖石帶上船的時候，它們還在砰砰作響，”費利特說。

University of Oxford volcanologist Mike Cassidy told Science magazine the underwater volcano is likely to be too deep to cause a tsunami onshore.

牛津大學火山學家邁克·卡西迪告訴《科學》雜志，水下火山可能太深，不會在水面引發(fā)海嘯。