Massive Hunga volcano eruption sets new standard for crowdsourcing scientific observation of seismic events

Dallas TX (SPX) May 18, 2022

The massive Jan. 15 eruption of the undersea Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano in the South Pacific Ocean was a once-in-a-century event that allowed an international group of 76 scientists using multiple forms of technology to crowdsource their data in ways never before possible. SMU geophysicist Stephen Arrowsmith, one of the co-authors of the eruption analysis published in Science, says