Toward 'Supervolcano' Technology

摘要

In addition to depicting the ultimate volcano-eruption horror story, the recent Discovery Channel/BBC coproduction "Supervolcano" speculates about what technology will be available to the geophysicist in 2025 to monitor active volcanoes. The result isa fictional Virtual Geophysical Laboratory that, when fed the right data, predicts eruption scenarios, thereby providing information to help guide civil emergency-response decisions. On page 821 of this issue, Pataneef al. (7) report a key step toward realizing such an advanced volcano-monitoring technology.