We present a narrative of the eruptive events culminating in the cataclysmic January 15, 2022 eruption of Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai Volcano by synthesizing diverse preliminary seismic, volcanological, sound wave, and...We present a narrative of the eruptive events culminating in the cataclysmic January 15, 2022 eruption of Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai Volcano by synthesizing diverse preliminary seismic, volcanological, sound wave, and lightning data available within the first few weeks after the eruption occurred. The first hour of eruptive activity produced fast-propagating tsunami waves, long-period seismic waves, loud audible sound waves, infrasonic waves, exceptionally intense volcanic lightning and an unsteady volcanic plume that transiently reached-at 58km-the Earth’s mesosphere. Energetic seismic signals were recorded worldwide and the globally stacked seismogram showed episodic seismic events within the most intense periods of phreatoplinian activity, and they correlated well with the infrasound pressure waveform recorded in Fiji. Gravity wave signals were strong enough to be observed over the entire planet in just the first few hours, with some circling the Earth multiple times subsequently. These large-amplitude, long-wavelength atmospheric disturbances come from the Earth’s atmosphere being forced by the magmatic mixture of tephra, melt and gasses emitted by the unsteady but quasicontinuous eruption from 0402±1–1800 UTC on January 15, 2022. Atmospheric forcing lasted much longer than rupturing from large earthquakes recorded on modern instruments, producing a type of shock wave that originated from the interaction between compressed air and ambient(wavy) sea surface. This scenario differs from conventional ideas of earthquake slip, landslides, or caldera collapse-generated tsunami waves because of the enormous(~1000x) volumetric change due to the supercritical nature of volatiles associated with the hot,volatile-rich phreatoplinian plume. The time series of plume altitude can be translated to volumetric discharge and mass flow rate. For an eruption duration of ~12 h, the eruptive volume and mass are estimated at 1.9 km^(3) and~2 900 Tg, respectively, corresponding to a VEI of 5–6 for this event. The high frequency and intensity of lightning was enhanced by the production of fine ash due to magma-seawater interaction with concomitant high charge per unit mass and the high pre-eruptive concentration of dissolved volatiles. Analysis of lightning flash frequencies provides a rapid metric for plume activity and eruption magnitude. Many aspects of this eruption await further investigation by multidisciplinary teams. It represents a unique opportunity for fundamental research regarding the complex, non-linear behavior of high energetic volcanic eruptions and attendant phenomena, with critical implications for hazard mitigation, volcano forecasting, and first-response efforts in future disasters.展开更多
We lay out the ramifications of the 2020 pandemic for all people in geosciences,especially the young,and argue for significant changes on training and career development.We focus primarily on its devastating impact in...We lay out the ramifications of the 2020 pandemic for all people in geosciences,especially the young,and argue for significant changes on training and career development.We focus primarily on its devastating impact in USA and compare with that in other countries especially China.We review the potential effect for the next four years or so on the aspirations of an academic career versus more realistic career goals.We urge people in mid-career about the need to reassess previous goals.We stress the need for students or researchers to acquire technical skills in high-performance computing(HPC),data analytics,artificial intelligence,and/or visualization along with a broad set of technical skills in applied computer science and mathematics.We give advice about hot prospects in several areas that have great potential for advancement in the coming decade,such as visualization,deep learning,quantum computing and information,and cloud computing,all of which lie within the aegis of HPC.Our forecast is that the pandemic will significantly reshape the job landscape and career paths for both young and established researchers and we discuss bluntly the dire situation facing junior people in geosciences in the aftermath of the pandemic around the world until 2024.展开更多
In these difficult and hard times of pandemic,why another new journal,like ERA,should come out?What is ERA?It is a journal sponsored by the China Earthquake Networks Center and co-sponsored by the School of Earth and ...In these difficult and hard times of pandemic,why another new journal,like ERA,should come out?What is ERA?It is a journal sponsored by the China Earthquake Networks Center and co-sponsored by the School of Earth and Space Sciences,University of Science and Technology in China.The reason for establishing this journal is to start something innovative and forge a path to a new leaf in earthquake-related research.You will see below that this journal is not afraid to dive into new topics.展开更多
The inexhaustible heat deposit in great depths （5-10 km） is a scientific fact. Such deposit occurs around the globe. Thereby, everybody is enabled to generate autonomously clean and renewable energy, ample electrici...The inexhaustible heat deposit in great depths （5-10 km） is a scientific fact. Such deposit occurs around the globe. Thereby, everybody is enabled to generate autonomously clean and renewable energy, ample electricity and heat. The economical exploration and exploitation of this superdeep geothermal heat deposit requires a novel drilling technique, because the currently only deep drilling method （Rotary） is limited to about 5 km, due to the rising costs, depending exponentially on depth. Electro-pulse-boring （EPB） is a valuable option to Rotary drilling. EPB, originally investigated in Russia, is ready to be developed for industrialization. The feasibility of EPB is proven by many boreholes drilled up to 200 m in granite （crystalline）. Estimates show outstanding low costs for drilling by EPB： 100 E/m for a borehole with a large diameter （φ） such as 20 （50 cm）, independent on depth and applicable likewise for sediments and crystalline rocks, such as granite. The current rate of penetration （ROP） of 3 m per hour is planned to be augmented up to 35 m per hour, and again, irrespective whether in sedimentary or crystalline formations. Consequently, a 10 km deep borehole with φ 50 cm will ultimately be drilled within 12 days. EPB will create new markets, such as： （i） EPB shallow drilling for geotechnics, energy piles, measures in order to mitigate natural hazards, etc., （ii） EPB deep drilling （3-5 km） for hydro-geothermics, exploration campaigns etc. and （iii） EPB super-deep drilling （5-10 km） for petro-geothermies, enabling the economic generation of electricity. The autonomous and unlimited supply with cost efficient electricity, besides ample heat, ensures reliably clean and renew- able energy, thus, high supply security. Such development will provide a substantial relief to cope with the global challenge to limit the climate change below 2 ℃. The diminution of fossil fuels, due to the energy transition in order to mitigate the climate change, implies likewise the decrease of air pollution.展开更多
Numerical modelling of geological processes, such as mantle convection, flow in porous media, and geothermal heat transfer, has become quite common with the increase in computing and the availability of usable softwar...Numerical modelling of geological processes, such as mantle convection, flow in porous media, and geothermal heat transfer, has become quite common with the increase in computing and the availability of usable software. Today modelling these dynamical processes entails the solving of the governing equations involving the mass, momentum, energy and chemical transport. These equations represent partial differential equations and must be solved on powerful enough computers because they require sufficient spatial and temporal resolution to be useful. We describe here the salient and outstanding features of the SEPRAN software package, developed in the Netherlands, as a case study for a robust and user-friendly soft- ware, which the geological community can utilize in handling many thermal-mechanical-chemical problems found in geology, which will include geothermal situations, where many types of partial differential equations must be solved at the same time with thermodynamical input parameters.展开更多
Based on focused ion beam and shear friction apparatus data, the multi-resolutions （0.2 nm-5μm） volume roughness ＆ asperity contact （VR ＆ AC） three-dimensional structure on principle slip surface interface-surf...Based on focused ion beam and shear friction apparatus data, the multi-resolutions （0.2 nm-5μm） volume roughness ＆ asperity contact （VR ＆ AC） three-dimensional structure on principle slip surface interface-surface （PSS-IS） is measured on high performance computational platform; and physical plastic-creep friction model is established by using hybrid hyper-singular integral equation ＆ lattice Boltzmann ＆ lattice Green function （BE-LB-LG）. The correlation of rheological property and VR ＆ AC evolution under transient （10 μs） macro-normal stress （18-300 MPa） and slip rate （0.25-7.5 m/s） are obtained; and the PSS-IS friction in co-seismic flash heating is quantitative analyzed for the first time.展开更多
Deep geothermal from the hot crystalline basement has remained an unsolved frontier for the geothermal industry for the past 30 years. This poses the challenge for developing a new unconventional geomechanics approach...Deep geothermal from the hot crystalline basement has remained an unsolved frontier for the geothermal industry for the past 30 years. This poses the challenge for developing a new unconventional geomechanics approach to stimulate such reservoirs. While a number of new unconventional brittle techniques are still available to improve stimulation on short time scales, the astonishing richness of failure modes of longer time scales in hot rocks has so far been overlooked. These failure modes represent a series of microscopic processes： brittle microfracturing prevails at low temperatures and fairly high deviatoric stresses, while upon increasing temperature and decreasing applied stress or longer time scales, the failure modes switch to transgranular and intergranular creep fractures. Accordingly, fluids play an active role and create their own pathways through facilitating shear localization by a process of time-dependent dissolution and precipitation creep, rather than being a passive constituent by simply following brittle fractures that are generated inside a shear zone caused by other localization mechanisms. We lay out a new theoretical approach for the design of new strategies to utilize, enhance and maintain the natural permeability in the deeper and hotter domain of geothermal reservoirs. The advantage of the approach is that, rather than engineering an entirely new EGS reservoir, we acknowledge a suite of creep-assisted geological processes that are driven by the current tectonic stress field. Such processes are particularly supported by higher temperatures potentially allowing in the future to target commercially viable combinations of temperatures and flow rates.展开更多
Our planet, Earth, contains an enormous amount of heat just right under our feet. Harnessing this heat from 2 to 5 krn below is one of the great challenges of the 21st century, because this can solve many of the curre...Our planet, Earth, contains an enormous amount of heat just right under our feet. Harnessing this heat from 2 to 5 krn below is one of the great challenges of the 21st century, because this can solve many of the currently urgent problems in mega-cities, such as inexpensive domestic heating and airconditioning, electric power consumption and the cure of ram- pant air pollution. Around 40 TW heat are released at a steady rate by the Earth partly due to natural radioactive decay and partly due to the action inside the core. We would like to stress here that the depth of the isotherm of 200℃ （minimum tem- perature for efficient generation of electricity） varies around the globe. In general, this depth would be less than 10 km deep. Therefore these heat sources would provide ubiquitous ample, clean and sustainable electricity. In addition to this sustainable resource the potential of geothermal energy use is much greater, because it allows effective heat mining of the Earth. Geothermal energy is most commonly exploited in volcanic areas where magma is close to the surface and brings up the heat from deeper down. The largest geothermal power plant of this style is the Geysers in California, which with 1 GW power production rivals nuclear power plants.展开更多
基金partially supported by US Department of Energy Grant DE-SC0019759National Science Foundation (NSF) Grants EAR-1918126, EAR-2027150, EAR-1925965, and OCE-1842989。
文摘We present a narrative of the eruptive events culminating in the cataclysmic January 15, 2022 eruption of Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai Volcano by synthesizing diverse preliminary seismic, volcanological, sound wave, and lightning data available within the first few weeks after the eruption occurred. The first hour of eruptive activity produced fast-propagating tsunami waves, long-period seismic waves, loud audible sound waves, infrasonic waves, exceptionally intense volcanic lightning and an unsteady volcanic plume that transiently reached-at 58km-the Earth’s mesosphere. Energetic seismic signals were recorded worldwide and the globally stacked seismogram showed episodic seismic events within the most intense periods of phreatoplinian activity, and they correlated well with the infrasound pressure waveform recorded in Fiji. Gravity wave signals were strong enough to be observed over the entire planet in just the first few hours, with some circling the Earth multiple times subsequently. These large-amplitude, long-wavelength atmospheric disturbances come from the Earth’s atmosphere being forced by the magmatic mixture of tephra, melt and gasses emitted by the unsteady but quasicontinuous eruption from 0402±1–1800 UTC on January 15, 2022. Atmospheric forcing lasted much longer than rupturing from large earthquakes recorded on modern instruments, producing a type of shock wave that originated from the interaction between compressed air and ambient(wavy) sea surface. This scenario differs from conventional ideas of earthquake slip, landslides, or caldera collapse-generated tsunami waves because of the enormous(~1000x) volumetric change due to the supercritical nature of volatiles associated with the hot,volatile-rich phreatoplinian plume. The time series of plume altitude can be translated to volumetric discharge and mass flow rate. For an eruption duration of ~12 h, the eruptive volume and mass are estimated at 1.9 km^(3) and~2 900 Tg, respectively, corresponding to a VEI of 5–6 for this event. The high frequency and intensity of lightning was enhanced by the production of fine ash due to magma-seawater interaction with concomitant high charge per unit mass and the high pre-eruptive concentration of dissolved volatiles. Analysis of lightning flash frequencies provides a rapid metric for plume activity and eruption magnitude. Many aspects of this eruption await further investigation by multidisciplinary teams. It represents a unique opportunity for fundamental research regarding the complex, non-linear behavior of high energetic volcanic eruptions and attendant phenomena, with critical implications for hazard mitigation, volcano forecasting, and first-response efforts in future disasters.
文摘We lay out the ramifications of the 2020 pandemic for all people in geosciences,especially the young,and argue for significant changes on training and career development.We focus primarily on its devastating impact in USA and compare with that in other countries especially China.We review the potential effect for the next four years or so on the aspirations of an academic career versus more realistic career goals.We urge people in mid-career about the need to reassess previous goals.We stress the need for students or researchers to acquire technical skills in high-performance computing(HPC),data analytics,artificial intelligence,and/or visualization along with a broad set of technical skills in applied computer science and mathematics.We give advice about hot prospects in several areas that have great potential for advancement in the coming decade,such as visualization,deep learning,quantum computing and information,and cloud computing,all of which lie within the aegis of HPC.Our forecast is that the pandemic will significantly reshape the job landscape and career paths for both young and established researchers and we discuss bluntly the dire situation facing junior people in geosciences in the aftermath of the pandemic around the world until 2024.
文摘In these difficult and hard times of pandemic,why another new journal,like ERA,should come out?What is ERA?It is a journal sponsored by the China Earthquake Networks Center and co-sponsored by the School of Earth and Space Sciences,University of Science and Technology in China.The reason for establishing this journal is to start something innovative and forge a path to a new leaf in earthquake-related research.You will see below that this journal is not afraid to dive into new topics.
文摘The inexhaustible heat deposit in great depths （5-10 km） is a scientific fact. Such deposit occurs around the globe. Thereby, everybody is enabled to generate autonomously clean and renewable energy, ample electricity and heat. The economical exploration and exploitation of this superdeep geothermal heat deposit requires a novel drilling technique, because the currently only deep drilling method （Rotary） is limited to about 5 km, due to the rising costs, depending exponentially on depth. Electro-pulse-boring （EPB） is a valuable option to Rotary drilling. EPB, originally investigated in Russia, is ready to be developed for industrialization. The feasibility of EPB is proven by many boreholes drilled up to 200 m in granite （crystalline）. Estimates show outstanding low costs for drilling by EPB： 100 E/m for a borehole with a large diameter （φ） such as 20 （50 cm）, independent on depth and applicable likewise for sediments and crystalline rocks, such as granite. The current rate of penetration （ROP） of 3 m per hour is planned to be augmented up to 35 m per hour, and again, irrespective whether in sedimentary or crystalline formations. Consequently, a 10 km deep borehole with φ 50 cm will ultimately be drilled within 12 days. EPB will create new markets, such as： （i） EPB shallow drilling for geotechnics, energy piles, measures in order to mitigate natural hazards, etc., （ii） EPB deep drilling （3-5 km） for hydro-geothermics, exploration campaigns etc. and （iii） EPB super-deep drilling （5-10 km） for petro-geothermies, enabling the economic generation of electricity. The autonomous and unlimited supply with cost efficient electricity, besides ample heat, ensures reliably clean and renew- able energy, thus, high supply security. Such development will provide a substantial relief to cope with the global challenge to limit the climate change below 2 ℃. The diminution of fossil fuels, due to the energy transition in order to mitigate the climate change, implies likewise the decrease of air pollution.
基金CMG and Geochemistry programs of the National Science foundationThe Netherlands Research Center for Integrated Solid Earth Science (ISES) project ME-2.7
文摘Numerical modelling of geological processes, such as mantle convection, flow in porous media, and geothermal heat transfer, has become quite common with the increase in computing and the availability of usable software. Today modelling these dynamical processes entails the solving of the governing equations involving the mass, momentum, energy and chemical transport. These equations represent partial differential equations and must be solved on powerful enough computers because they require sufficient spatial and temporal resolution to be useful. We describe here the salient and outstanding features of the SEPRAN software package, developed in the Netherlands, as a case study for a robust and user-friendly soft- ware, which the geological community can utilize in handling many thermal-mechanical-chemical problems found in geology, which will include geothermal situations, where many types of partial differential equations must be solved at the same time with thermodynamical input parameters.
文摘Based on focused ion beam and shear friction apparatus data, the multi-resolutions （0.2 nm-5μm） volume roughness ＆ asperity contact （VR ＆ AC） three-dimensional structure on principle slip surface interface-surface （PSS-IS） is measured on high performance computational platform; and physical plastic-creep friction model is established by using hybrid hyper-singular integral equation ＆ lattice Boltzmann ＆ lattice Green function （BE-LB-LG）. The correlation of rheological property and VR ＆ AC evolution under transient （10 μs） macro-normal stress （18-300 MPa） and slip rate （0.25-7.5 m/s） are obtained; and the PSS-IS friction in co-seismic flash heating is quantitative analyzed for the first time.
基金support from the China University of Geosciences (CUG) for visiting the conference in Wuhan in 2012
文摘Deep geothermal from the hot crystalline basement has remained an unsolved frontier for the geothermal industry for the past 30 years. This poses the challenge for developing a new unconventional geomechanics approach to stimulate such reservoirs. While a number of new unconventional brittle techniques are still available to improve stimulation on short time scales, the astonishing richness of failure modes of longer time scales in hot rocks has so far been overlooked. These failure modes represent a series of microscopic processes： brittle microfracturing prevails at low temperatures and fairly high deviatoric stresses, while upon increasing temperature and decreasing applied stress or longer time scales, the failure modes switch to transgranular and intergranular creep fractures. Accordingly, fluids play an active role and create their own pathways through facilitating shear localization by a process of time-dependent dissolution and precipitation creep, rather than being a passive constituent by simply following brittle fractures that are generated inside a shear zone caused by other localization mechanisms. We lay out a new theoretical approach for the design of new strategies to utilize, enhance and maintain the natural permeability in the deeper and hotter domain of geothermal reservoirs. The advantage of the approach is that, rather than engineering an entirely new EGS reservoir, we acknowledge a suite of creep-assisted geological processes that are driven by the current tectonic stress field. Such processes are particularly supported by higher temperatures potentially allowing in the future to target commercially viable combinations of temperatures and flow rates.
文摘Our planet, Earth, contains an enormous amount of heat just right under our feet. Harnessing this heat from 2 to 5 krn below is one of the great challenges of the 21st century, because this can solve many of the currently urgent problems in mega-cities, such as inexpensive domestic heating and airconditioning, electric power consumption and the cure of ram- pant air pollution. Around 40 TW heat are released at a steady rate by the Earth partly due to natural radioactive decay and partly due to the action inside the core. We would like to stress here that the depth of the isotherm of 200℃ （minimum tem- perature for efficient generation of electricity） varies around the globe. In general, this depth would be less than 10 km deep. Therefore these heat sources would provide ubiquitous ample, clean and sustainable electricity. In addition to this sustainable resource the potential of geothermal energy use is much greater, because it allows effective heat mining of the Earth. Geothermal energy is most commonly exploited in volcanic areas where magma is close to the surface and brings up the heat from deeper down. The largest geothermal power plant of this style is the Geysers in California, which with 1 GW power production rivals nuclear power plants.
