I would not want to be in a ship above that when it went off! It looked like a nuclear explosion.
A nuclear explosion, compared to this volcanic eruption from the sea floor, is like a ladyfinger firecracker held between thumb and forefinger as it went off, and the effects of a Hiroshima-sized nuclear bomb.
The sheer volume of the water thrown up into the stratosphere will take some time to drift low enough to fall back to earth as rain.
But not nuclear winter. Water vapor is actually pretty transparent to the sun’s rays. Unlike silica dust or particulate carbon.
Nukes are puny in comparison
That underwater explosion released 61 megatons of energy.
Or an airplane. I never heard of this.
Does that imply by relation that setting off atomic bombs on the seabed, large amounts of water vapor could be sent into the atmosphere and mimic this natural volcanic effect as well?
I wonder if there is comparative data someone has done relating the effects of a bomb detonation and underwater volcanic eruption? Are they similar in heat and water vapor generated?