The destructive eruption of Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha’apai which occurred in January of 2022 was the largest explosive eruption of the 21st century. New research into the eruption has revealed that it produced pyroclastic flows which travelled up to 50 miles or 80 kilometers distant. This marks the longest pyroclastic flows to occur on the planet since 1883 and perhaps even the largest in the last 1,000 years.
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Source of Volcanic Explosivity Index (VEI) methodology and criteria: Newhall, C. G., and Self, S. (1982), The volcanic explosivity index (VEI) an estimate of explosive magnitude for historical volcanism, J. Geophys. Res., 87( C2), 1231– 1238, doi:10.1029/JC087iC02p01231. Accessed / Read on Oct 5 2022.
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[1] Mohammad Heidarzadeh, Aditya Riadi Gusman, Takeo Ishibe, Ramtin Sabeti, Jadranka Šepić, Estimating the eruption-induced water displacement source of the 15 January 2022 Tonga volcanic tsunami from tsunami spectra and numerical modelling, Ocean Engineering, Volume 261, 2022, 112165, ISSN 0029-8018, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oceaneng.2022.112165. (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0029801822014810), CC BY 4.0
[2] Twitter Exchange with scientist Shane Cronin, @scronin70 (Twitter)
[3] National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research, NIWA
0:00 Hunga Tonga Erupts
0:26 New Information 10 Months Later
2:43 A Tall Tsunami
3:27 Meteotsunami
4:12 Conclusion
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I had previously proposed that pyroclastic flows from the eruption travelled around 20 to 30 km based on older seafloor data. Indeed this was true, and pyroclastic flows travelled 50 miles or 80 kilometers from Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha'apai's summit. Not only is this staggering, but it has massive future implications for the placement of submarine cables and movement of ships and submarines around shallow submarine or shallow island volcanoes with calderas.
The decrease in solar radiation (sunlight) reaching this planet's surface under the band of atmospheric dust from Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha'apai is already impacting agriculture. This is going to impact weather and food production across some very important areas of our planet for years to come.
Greta Thunfish won't be too happy about this… Soooo many CO2's… We needs to pay moa taxez… Blahblahblah
Someone need to tax that god damn volcano for its carbon footprint.
I was in Warsaw at the time. I heard it.
That means we were lucky that it wasn´t a vulcano on a continent. Otherwise the damage would have been much, much bigger for human world population.
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how do they know this it happened 1000 years ago science is all guesswork before the 17th century
Look at all that greenhouse CO2 spewing into the globes atmosphere. Let's tax it for more green energy.
In southern Australia it doesn’t feel like the planet has warmed. We’re getting the wettest weather on record and it’s cold AF! My tomatoes are doomed!
Notice how the Pyroclastic smoke and debris clouds look exactly like those of the twin towers on 9/11. Only extreme heat and explosive forces can cause them but we are told to believe that planes flying into the top portion of the building spontaniously caused that two hours after crashing itno them.
Was so loud I could hear it inside my loader while clearing snow in Whitehorse, Yukon. The whole crew heard it.
Good.
I think he likes saying that volcano's name.
great video…a lot of the water is probably getting swallowed up by the earth's core
1000s of volcanos and they think we are hurting the earth. Lmfao. That one explosion is all as much pollution that the humans put out in all of human existence.
More pollution here than humans did in all of time.
"larger than the state of Delaware" WTF??????? no one outside of your little neck of the woods would know where Delaware is or how large it is, Stupid stupid!!!!!1
You can see that this particilar volcano was much larger on the past ans had eruoted under water many times. It's likely that the original eruption was on the sea bed. I imagine it took some time for it to reach the surface and build an island.
I'd like to know what kind of sedimentary depisites these under water flows make, and how they compare to depisits in the geologic record.
My GOD the Global Warming!
Please share the Love of the Son of God. Please write His Words in your Heart, and share them. Please Forgive, and Pray for everyone… Immanuel, God with us….
So there's no actual footage of the eruption that has any audio to it, or did you edit over the original audio?
Unusually cold winter and spring in South Australia this year with excess rain