Talk:2012 Kermadec Islands eruption

A fact from 2012 Kermadec Islands eruption appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 19 August 2012 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that an undersea volcanic eruption (pictured) which produced a pumice raft covering approximately 10,000 square miles (26,000 km²), was not discovered until several weeks had passed?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2012/August.

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Map?

The accompanying image/map give no hint as to where this is. If you are going to post such a map, please locate the spot it illustrates.

Thanks, Nick Beeson (talk) 22:58, 19 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

There are latitude and longitude coordinates just below the image in the infobox. Best, IronGargoyle (talk) 23:56, 19 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

It is near where the blue dot with the 'W' is, on the eastern arm. Wendy.krieger (talk) 09:58, 21 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The largest deep-ocean silicic volcanic eruption of the past century

This recent article in Science Advances includes a lot of information and is probably a good source for improving this article. Phil (talk) 21:45, 16 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/4/1/e1701121.full