Could a volcanic eruption off Mexico's coast unleash a tsunami like the one that devastated Tonga? What really causes tectonic plates to shift and trigger earthquakes? Scientists visited a remote archipelago in search of answers.
Located in the Pacific Ocean several hundred kilometers from the Mexican coast, the Revillagigedo Islands are known as"Mexico's Galapagos" due to their isolation and biodiversity.
Getting there takes about 24 hours or more by boat and few civilians visit apart from scuba drivers lured by giant manta rays,Last month, an international team of 10 scientists carried out a week-long mission whose aims included trying to determine if—or more likely when—there will be another"What we're trying to find is how explosive these volcanos can be and how dangerous," said the group's leader, Douwe van Hinsbergen, a professor at Utrecht University in the Netherlands.
"What we volcanologists are looking for is when the next eruption is going to happen," using modeling based on previous volcanic activity, he added. "If that is true, then everything that we see, at least on timescales of tens of millions of years and shorter, is driven by gravity pulling plates down. And that would make the whole system a lot simpler," he said.
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