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“West side of Bay, Pt. Resolution. The near land has been thrown up by earthquakes, 1878 and 1888.” External view across the bay with two figures paddling in the water. Mount Yasur is an active volcano on Tanna, located on the coast near Sulphur Bay. It lies to the southeast of the dormant Mount Tukosmera, near Port Resolution. Yasur Volcano has been in almost continuous eruption for hundreds of years and in 1878 it gave a display of ‘tremendous force’, accompanied by a local earthquake and a tsunami that reached ~12 m elevation. In 1888 a large earthquake resulted in the uplift of the western shore of Port Resolution.
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