Tatun Group viewed from Yangmingshan National ParkTop Photo Corporation/Alamy There's been a lot of volcanic news lately from places you wouldn't think of as having volcanoes. Like, say, Taiwan. The Tatun Group cluster of about 20 andesitic volcanoes sits just 20 kilometers (about 13 miles) or so from Taipei. More than 6.7 million people live within 30 kilometer (18.5 miles) of this volcanic group, which last erupted around 650 AD. Researchers from the
Academia Sinica's Institute of Earth Sciences found seismic evidence for magma about 20 kilometers under the Tatun
Group, supporting the idea that people should consider it potentially active. The study in Nature Scientific Reports suggests that the magma body is a single lens of magma or a series of sills that might mean the full magmatic system (liquid magma and mush) could be as large as 350 cubic kilometers, depending on what percentage of the system is ...
