Bernd
2022-01-15 10:01:14 ⋅ 2y
No. 132372
The island next to tonga went kaboom.
Bernd
2022-01-15 10:05:20 ⋅ 2y
No. 132373
>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.
Bernd
2022-01-15 10:05:42 ⋅ 2y
No. 132374
tsunami and sand falling from sky
Bernd
2022-01-15 10:38:51 ⋅ 2y
No. 132375
Not my problem.
Bernd
2022-01-15 18:11:17 ⋅ 2y
No. 132397
tsunami reached california
also video from fiji 750km west, sound on
Bernd
2022-01-15 18:17:37 ⋅ 2y
No. 132398
>>132397
>tsunami reached california
Bernd
2022-01-15 18:37:33 ⋅ 2y
No. 132400
The shockwave (that you can see on satellite images) was recorded on NZ barometers as ~3mbar in amplitude.
Bernd
2022-01-15 18:39:16 ⋅ 2y
No. 132401
tsunami on oregon
Bernd
2022-01-15 20:44:31 ⋅ 2y
No. 132416
>>132398
Time to svrf.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIqE_501PZI
Bernd
2022-01-15 23:42:31 ⋅ 2y
No. 132425
chile = chill
Bernd
2022-01-16 14:03:04 ⋅ 2y
No. 132452
shockwave measure upon the clobenia
I wonder what happened in the antipode, should be somewhere in sahara
Bernd
2022-01-16 14:10:31 ⋅ 2y
No. 132453
>>132416
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCXs3xB2Bjk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuUaJh_rFEI
Bernd
2022-01-16 22:03:44 ⋅ 2y
No. 132503
Bernd
2022-01-16 22:57:58 ⋅ 2y
No. 132513
This had to have been a VEI 6
Bernd
2022-01-17 00:47:31 ⋅ 2y
No. 132523
>>132513
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.
Bernd
2022-01-17 00:57:06 ⋅ 2y
No. 132524
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.
Bernd
2022-01-17 02:05:54 ⋅ 2y
No. 132527
>>132524
Crazy shit man
Bernd
2022-01-18 13:13:08 ⋅ 2y
No. 132681
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
Bernd
2022-01-19 01:34:27 ⋅ 2y
No. 132766
>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
Bernd
2022-01-19 01:45:45 ⋅ 2y
No. 132769
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/
https://www.npr.org/2022/01/18/1073800454/nasa-scientists-estima
Bernd 2022-01-19 07:08:35 ⋅ 2y No. 132795>"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
Bernd
2022-01-19 07:32:57 ⋅ 2y
No. 132796
>>132795
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!
Bernd
2022-01-19 07:41:32 ⋅ 2y
No. 132798
>>132796
Is that 40 [s]billion[/s] trillion burgers?
Bernd
2022-01-19 09:10:21 ⋅ 2y
No. 132799
>>132796
Imagine the freedom
Bernd
2022-01-19 10:32:10 ⋅ 2y
No. 132802
>>132795
how many tsar bombs is it tho?
t. cobiet coioz enthusiast
Bernd
2022-01-19 10:43:56 ⋅ 2y
No. 132804
>>132802
I think that was a 50 megaton blast so only 1/5th of the tsar bomba. Tonga weak!
Bernd
2022-01-20 19:58:29 ⋅ 2y
No. 132950
apparently the bööm was big enough to also trigger waves across in the caribbean
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnmsvq2HkG8
Bernd
2022-01-23 14:13:44 ⋅ 2y
No. 133114
>>132795
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/