shockwave that radiated out from the volcano at close to the speed of sound.
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Airport air pressure sensors as the Tonga Volcano shockwave crossed the US mainland
https://rumble.com/vso3kv-airport-air-pressure-sensors-as-the-tonga-volcano-shockwave-crossed-the-us-.html?mref=kkgl3&mrefc=55
Gee...I wonder how much “greenhouse gas” the eruption put into the air? Probably more than all fossil fuel burning for years in comparison.
It was a huge Phreatic eruption-explains the sudden BLAST. It was explained to me that one can see it in the blast cloud after it let go. Lots of steam.
Since it was far down in the southern hemisphere, we shouldnt see to much in the air in the N hemisphere. But, look to see if the sky is a tiny deeper blue and the sunsets are a tiny more pink color.
They are trying to determine how much has been put into the upper atmosphere. South of the Equator will see the most effects if any.
Example; Pinatubo was a VEI 6, St Helens a 5.
So if you take St Helens and stand as ground zero-Pinatubo being a 6 was at ten feet. A 7 would be 100 feet, and an 8 would be 1000 feet. Krakatoa was a 7..If I remember right.
My bet is that this one will be at about a 5 because of it being largely under water.
They’ll determine it soon.
BTW, one of the biggest killers in recent history was one in Iceland-abt a VEI 4 which went on and on and pumped massive amounts of gas into the air.
With that eruption, all the years of the phony climate-change progress went into the crapper...
At least the small progress that hadn’t already been barfed away by the 69 volcano eruptions in 2021 in places like, for example, Iceland, Kilauea, & La Palma...
In fact, as we post today, there are 19 volcanos barfing their guts out right now...
Not to mention that huge belching gas-well fire that has been burning for many decades...
Hockey stick be damned...
We got to pass the word onto the Kalifornians.
Just so they can run around, crashing into each other in panic. OMG! We are all going to die!!!
Remember, after all they had a catastrophic 2 foot tsunami hit after. NOBODY gets two foot tsunamis EVER.
This thing probably emitted more CO2 than the next 20 years of electric cars will save.
Capt. John Voss on his voyage around the world in a First Nation’s dugout canoe, had an encounter with a sea of pumice, from a similar event! His journey was very historic and worth reading! The pumice was/is the residue from undersea volcanic action(s).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Voss_(sailor)
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https://www.canadashistory.ca/explore/books/around-the-world-in-a-dugout-canoe
Yeah, that's just somebody's guess. What do they know?
Just kidding...and, are they kidding? Of course they were destroyed. Duh.
I live on the lower slope of a Volcano, on an island that has an active volcano, and also experienced Tsunami damage.
What is the big deal?
I also echo others here, Democrats saying the sky is falling and always crying “wolf” are very tiresome. But it is illegal to obliterate them. So be tolerant.
I know satellites are circling the earth...but, how in the heck was the satellite right over the eruption at the perfect time?
Was the area being monitored for movement, like they do Mt. Saint Helens?
To paraphrase Owl Gore: “The Earth has got to stop making its atmosphere a sewer.”
From puzzled scientists to those who struggle:)
What about the Hinga-Dinga-Durgen volcano?