Another sneak-peek at some of the satellite images used in our @NatureComms paper of the 2018 Anak Krakatau landslide. Half of the island including the edifice failed into the caldera basin @NOCnews

A sneak-peek at some of the results from our @NatureComms paper on the 2018 Anak Krakatau landslide. The collapse of the SW flank on December 22nd deposited 90-high blocks in a series of block trains over 1.5 km from the flank @NOCnews

Some details on our study of Anak Krakatau at

@NatureComms have provided a shortened URL for our paper as part of their SharedIt initiative 😀.

Happy to announce our paper on the 2018 Anak Krakatau flank collapse in @NatureComms has gone live this morning. Here, we show that half the island collapsed to generate the tsunami and reveal the landslide deposit on the seafloor for the first time

Recent Sentinel-2 images and Sentinel-1 SAR of Anak Krakatau on the 17th, showing new lavas, ejecta, crater disappearance and potential cone development. The rapid rebuild continues. #NERCscience

Great image from the OLI on Landsat 8 published by NASA with an infra-red overlay showing the activity at Anak Krakatau on the 13th #NERCscience

Anak Krakatau made an explosive return on the 10-11th and 13th April. Here, are satellite true-colour images from Sentinel-2 and SAR (radar) images from Sentinel-1 during the episode. The crater lake seems to have disappeared. Interesting developments since the 2018 landslide.

RT @USGS: #FunFact - The 8 main Hawaiian Islands are made up of 15 volcanoes, which are the youngest in a chain of more than 129 volcanoes….

The next riddle after multistage landslides. Do these most recent deposits offshore SW Montserrat record the 1997 and 2010 flows and surges that buried Plymouth and entered the sea? @MikeVolc

Managed to work in @BOSCORF_NOC today for the first time in ages.

The geological scenario in our paper ( has been taken out of context @Daily_Star @JoshuaNevett. Ocean island landslides may trigger caldera collapse eruptions, but these events are v v rare, occurring every 250,000 years or more; certainly not historical.

I would urge journalists (e.g. @JoshuaNevett @Daily_Star ) to approach the authors of research for informed advice concerning their work before copy-pasting exerts of press releases to fit their stories grandstanding catastrophism. There is a need for responsible reporting.

RT @davepetley: Oh no, not again! How is it that this ridiculous story about a Canary Islands megatsunami keeps reappearing? https://t.co/….

RT @MikeAClare: @davepetley gosh - they have conflated three different things (tsunami modelling based on v worst case, prob not credible s….

RT @NERCscience: Large volcanic island flank collapses trigger catastrophic eruptions @NOCnews .

RT @BOSCORF_NOC: Short clip of our @NERCscience ATSC students logging turbidites cores, learning how to use the handheld photospectrometer….

Research published today in @Nature by @MikeVolc and I show that giant landslides on Tenerife e.g. the Icod and Orotava (pictured) likely triggered huge caldera-forming eruptions. Source:

Shout out to @MikeVolc who was a co-author on the paper.

Published this morning in Nature Scientific Reports concerning the triggering of caldera-forming eruptions on Tenerife by large multi-stage flank collapses. Source: