The millennium eruption of Changbaishan Tianchi Volcano is VEI 6, not 7

• Main Authors: Yang, Qingyuan, Jenkins, Susanna F., Lerner, Geoffrey A., Li, Weiran, Suzuki, Takehiko, McLean, Danielle, Derkachev, A. N., Utkin, I.V., Wei, Haiquan, Xu, Jiandong, Pan, Bo
• Other Authors: Asian School of the Environment
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Science::Geology; Millennium Eruption; Changbaishan Tianchi Volcano
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/160061
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The Millennium Eruption (AD 946–947) of Changbaishan Tianchi Volcano is one of the largest known eruptions in recorded history. With the help of previously published isopachs and distal ash thicknesses, we re-calculate the bulk volume of its distal eruptive product, the B-Tm ash, as 27–62 km3 and th...