Posted on 01/17/2022 11:12:34 AM PST by BenLurkin
The eruption of Hunga-Tonga-Hunga-Ha'apai volcano, which sits on the seismically active Pacific Ring of Fire, sent tsunami waves across the Pacific Ocean and was heard some 2,300 kms (1,430 miles) away in New Zealand.
[O]n-site instruments were likely destroyed in the eruption and the volcanology community was pooling together the best available data and expertise to review the explosion and predict anticipated future activity.
Saturday's eruption was so powerful that space satellites captured not only huge clouds of ash but also an atmospheric shockwave that radiated out from the volcano at close to the speed of sound.
Photographs and videos showed grey ash clouds billowing over the South Pacific and metre-high waves surging onto the coast of Tonga.
There are no official reports of injuries or deaths in Tonga yet but internet and telephone communications are extremely limited and outlying coastal areas remain cut off.
As the superheated magma rose quickly and met the cool seawater, so did a huge volume of volcanic gases, intensifying the explosion...
Some volcanologists are likening the eruption to the 1991 Pinatubo eruption in the Philippines, the second-largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century, which killed around 800 people.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
The source in the video indicated 98,000 feet.
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If its that high, then it was more than likely more than a VEI 4.
St Helens was said to be around 79 thousand feet.
Will see. I want to see the hole after the whole thing settles down.
BTW, the largest eruption in the 20th century was in Alaska. Novarupta, or some name like that.
I think your thinking about the Tierra Blanca Joven eruption.
But they are still arguing about that.
The argument is that whatever erupted, it had to be in the mid latitudes as to spread globally.
Have not seen that.
The Tambora eruption was spectacular and caused global havoc.
You are 100% correct.
Humans cant do sh@t. And one volcano coughing will prove it.
What about the Hinga-Dinga-Durgen volcano?
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Makes sense....thanks.
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I got the prelims today on that volcano.
Estimate 400 thousand tons of SO2. Blast topped out at 98 thousand feet. 400 thousand tons of SO2 is about 3% of Pinatubo.
And they are really arguing about the size of it. Some are at a 4 and some at a light 5.
Some are pissed that they cant get accurate SO2 sat images.
If it is settled at a 4, then its a hell of a 4 to send a shock wave round the earth like that. But then again it was a huge Pheartic explosion.
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