What?
What?
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there’s a conspiracy theory going around that some one saw or filmed something being dropped into the crater just before it blew and since the blast is cited by these same people to have been 10MT, they assume it was a nuclear weapon. Not a scientific package.
And despite the hype here, the eruption was only a 4-5 on the VEI - relatively minor.
Tonga released only about 0.1 cubic miles (0.5 cubic kilometers). Tonga : much ado about not much, volcanically.
K.A.O.S.?