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SloveniaBernd2022-01-15 10:01:14 · 4yNo. 132372reply
The island next to tonga went kaboom.
RussiaBernd2022-01-15 10:05:20 · 4yNo. 132373reply
>The Pacific island of Tonga experienced a large volcanic eruption Saturday followed by a tsunami that flooded parts of the capital, Nuku'alofa.
 
>The surge wave reached a height of 2.7 feet (83 centimeters) in Nuku'alofa, according to the US-based Pacific Tsunami Warning Center. There is no information yet on property damage or casualties.
SloveniaBernd2022-01-15 10:05:42 · 4yNo. 132374reply
GermanyBernd2022-01-15 10:38:51 · 4yNo. 132375reply
Not my problem.
SloveniaBernd2022-01-15 18:11:17 · 4yNo. 132397reply
tsunami reached california
also video from fiji 750km west, sound on
SloveniaBernd2022-01-15 18:17:37 · 4yNo. 132398reply
>tsunami reached california
SloveniaBernd2022-01-15 18:37:33 · 4yNo. 132400reply
The shockwave (that you can see on satellite images) was recorded on NZ barometers as ~3mbar in amplitude.
SloveniaBernd2022-01-15 18:39:16 · 4yNo. 132401reply
RussiaBernd2022-01-15 20:44:31 · 4yNo. 132416reply
 
Time to svrf.
 
GermanyBernd2022-01-15 23:42:31 · 4yNo. 132425reply
SloveniaBernd2022-01-16 14:03:04 · 4yNo. 132452reply
shockwave measure upon the clobenia
 
I wonder what happened in the antipode, should be somewhere in sahara
SloveniaBernd2022-01-16 14:10:31 · 4yNo. 132453reply
SloveniaBernd2022-01-16 22:03:44 · 4yNo. 132503reply
United StatesBernd2022-01-16 22:57:58 · 4yNo. 132513reply
This had to have been a VEI 6
SloveniaBernd2022-01-17 00:47:31 · 4yNo. 132523reply
yeah I was thinking high 5 at first but I think 6 is likely
also on some satellite images you can clearly see it leaking into the stratosphere, keep an eye for that extra column that punches through after the first blast that only makes a flat top with waves on it
 
Edit: Holy shit I just noticed you can actually see the shockwave triggering rain in that cloud band to the east.
SloveniaBernd2022-01-17 00:57:06 · 4yNo. 132524reply
SO2 readings look quite ebin too.
Good question now is, how much of this is in the stratosphere. I'd say that blob on western side is in the stratosphere, as it doesn't seem to be moving together with weather patterns.
United StatesBernd2022-01-17 02:05:54 · 4yNo. 132527reply
Crazy shit man
SloveniaBernd2022-01-18 13:13:08 · 4yNo. 132681reply
Tonga conundrum: how to accept relief aid while under one of the few remaining unbreached chinese coof containment quarantines since vaccination is only halfway done so far.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/18/world/australia/tonga-volcano-covid.html
SloveniaBernd2022-01-19 01:34:27 · 4yNo. 132766reply
>The eruptive column reached a height of about 30 km (98 500 feet) above sea level, according to data provided by the Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite (OMPS) Limb Profiler aboard the Suomi NPP satellite.
>Other estimates suggest the cloud could have reached as high as 39 km (127 900 feet) a.s.l.
 
penetrated well into the stratosphere bby
SloveniaBernd2022-01-19 01:45:45 · 4yNo. 132769reply
and some coverage from my favourite volcano blog
https://www.volcanocafe.org/the-vei-5-millennium-eruption-of-hunga-tonga/
https://www.volcanocafe.org/the-hunga-tonga-explosion/
Texashttps://www.npr.org/2022/01/18/1073800454/nasa-scientists-estimaBernd2022-01-19 07:08:35 · 4yNo. 132795reply
>"We come up with a number that's around 10 megatons of TNT equivalent," James Garvin, the chief scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, told NPR.
 
>That means the explosive force was more than 500 times as powerful as the nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, at the end of World War II.
 
This is how I digest my news. I need measurements in burgers, Wal-Marts and WW2 bombs in order to appreciate the size :3
United StatesBernd2022-01-19 07:32:57 · 4yNo. 132796reply
10 megatons = 10,000,000 tons
1 ton of TNT = 1,000,000,000 calories
One standard McDoland's Hambuger 250 calories
 
By my calculations... THAT'S ONE BIG FUCKING BURGER!
TexasBernd2022-01-19 07:41:32 · 4yNo. 132798reply
Is that 40 billion trillion burgers?
FinlandBernd2022-01-19 09:10:21 · 4yNo. 132799reply
Imagine the freedom
SloveniaBernd2022-01-19 10:32:10 · 4yNo. 132802reply
how many tsar bombs is it tho?
t. cobiet coioz enthusiast
TexasBernd2022-01-19 10:43:56 · 4yNo. 132804reply
I think that was a 50 megaton blast so only 1/5th of the tsar bomba. Tonga weak!
SloveniaBernd2022-01-20 19:58:29 · 4yNo. 132950reply
apparently the bööm was big enough to also trigger waves across in the caribbean
SloveniaBernd2022-01-23 14:13:44 · 4yNo. 133114reply
New estimates by actual pros and not a bunch of hacks at NASA are now saying: 50-60 megatons.
https://www.npr.org/2022/01/21/1074438703/nuclear-test-monitor-calls-tonga-volcano-blast-biggest-thing-that-weve-ever-seen
https://www.volcanocafe.org/hunga-tonga-and-the-supercriticality-event/
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