Tonga Volcano Eruption

HW3 · 01-21-22, 10:22 AM

We had a tsunami watch for it on the Oregon coast for 1-3 foot waves. I saw one news post about some minor damage later that day.

Skybird · 01-21-22, 10:42 AM

Has the volcano already paid for the CO2 certificates it has consumed? Or is it the Germans again?

mapuc · 01-21-22, 11:19 AM

Here is little more science on this off scale eruption

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Then came the catastrophic eruption on January 15. As seen in satellite images, only two tiny outcrops of rock now betray the beast lurking beneath the waves. But whether it happens in weeks or years, the volcano will rise again.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/s...many-mysteries

Markus

Aktungbby · 01-21-22, 12:20 PM

Upon review, in my expert opinion

, I rate this a 5 on the VEI scale similar in scope to Mt St Helens and Vesuvius...(the one that destroyed Pompeii-not the really big one!)! Vesuvius may properly be referred to as the 'ticking bomb' of Europe. The Tongan volcano has gone off in 1912, 1937, 1988, 2009, 2014-15, and studies reflect a much bigger one ca: 1100 AD. As with the VEI 6 blast of Krakatoa in 1886, we are awaiting the blast from 'Son of Krakatoa', which has already spewed forth on occasion. Tonga got lucky this time around.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcan...losivity_Index https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anak_K...0of%20Krakatoa. RULE 1 in Vulcanology: It ain't 'if' it's 'when' !!

mapuc · 01-21-22, 12:28 PM

According to this wiki page It has been classified as a 5 on VEI scale

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The eruption was described as as a once-in-a-thousand-years event for the Hunga caldera, and the event could rank as high as 5 on the volcanic explosivity index (VEI)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_H...on_and_tsunami

Markus

Aktungbby · 01-21-22, 01:20 PM

Wiki reads my posts!

Kudos to Tonga though. Tonga like Vanuatu and the Solomon islands on the World Risk Index to natural disasters, are the three countries most susceptible to disasters on this killer spinning mudball. Tonga's practice of tsunami drills bore marvelous dividends as the residents of the archipelago knew where to go at the eruption's first "boom", also heard in Denmark by a certain P.O.S.H cat lover"??!

The confirmed death toll is...3!!

...that's good government preparation by any standard!

Jeff-Groves · 01-21-22, 01:26 PM

It was a False Flag that went off early!
Putin was gonna invade the Ukraine while everyone was looking the other way.

01-21-22, 10:22 AM	#1
HW3 Navy Seal Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Gresham Oregon Posts: 6,574 Downloads: 458 Uploads: 0	We had a tsunami watch for it on the Oregon coast for 1-3 foot waves. I saw one news post about some minor damage later that day. __________________ "Some ships are designed to sink...others require our assistance." Nathan Zelk

01-21-22, 10:42 AM	#2
Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 42,630 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	Has the volcano already paid for the CO2 certificates it has consumed? Or is it the Germans again? __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert.

01-21-22, 12:20 PM	#4
Aktungbby Gefallen Engel U-666 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: On a tilted, overheated, overpopulated spinning mudball on Collision course with Andromeda Galaxy Posts: 30,014 Downloads: 24 Uploads: 0	Upon review, in my expert opinion , I rate this a 5 on the VEI scale similar in scope to Mt St Helens and Vesuvius...(the one that destroyed Pompeii-not the really big one!)! Vesuvius may properly be referred to as the 'ticking bomb' of Europe. The Tongan volcano has gone off in 1912, 1937, 1988, 2009, 2014-15, and studies reflect a much bigger one ca: 1100 AD. As with the VEI 6 blast of Krakatoa in 1886, we are awaiting the blast from 'Son of Krakatoa', which has already spewed forth on occasion. Tonga got lucky this time around. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcan...losivity_Index https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anak_K...0of%20Krakatoa. RULE 1 in Vulcanology: It ain't 'if' it's 'when' !! __________________ "Only two things are infinite; The Universe and human squirrelyness?!!

01-21-22, 01:20 PM	#6
Aktungbby Gefallen Engel U-666 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: On a tilted, overheated, overpopulated spinning mudball on Collision course with Andromeda Galaxy Posts: 30,014 Downloads: 24 Uploads: 0	Wiki reads my posts! Kudos to Tonga though. Tonga like Vanuatu and the Solomon islands on the World Risk Index to natural disasters, are the three countries most susceptible to disasters on this killer spinning mudball. Tonga's practice of tsunami drills bore marvelous dividends as the residents of the archipelago knew where to go at the eruption's first "boom", also heard in Denmark by a certain P.O.S.H cat lover"??! The confirmed death toll is...3!!...that's good government preparation by any standard! __________________ "Only two things are infinite; The Universe and human squirrelyness?!!

01-21-22, 01:26 PM	#7
Jeff-Groves GLOBAL MODDING TERRORIST Join Date: Sep 2014 Posts: 5,651 Downloads: 137 Uploads: 0	It was a False Flag that went off early! Putin was gonna invade the Ukraine while everyone was looking the other way.