Volcano Erupts Near Tonga in The Pacific

[BushMasterBoy]

Satellite shows a volcanic eruption in the Pacific. Report says there were some small waves on the west coast.

[BPTactical]

Was reading info on this on “the site that shan’t be named”.
Initial reports that the blast was heard 6k miles away. The shock wave was recorded across the US by weather stations when air pressure spiked.
It has the potential to equal the Krakatoa blast of the 1600’s.
It makes Mt St Helen’s look like a mouse fart in a pop can.
3’ waves at Hawaii and triggered Tsunami warnings across the west coast and entire pacific rim.
Bad deal.
New Zealand link https://www.1news.co.nz/2022/01/15/l...KwKGNXWfOPsxAc

[hollohas]

Blast as seen from space.

https://mobile.twitter.com/us_stormw...415721475?s=10

[eddiememphis]

A reminder that all the bullshit we worry about is nonsense.

Humanity's existence could, and likely will, be erased in minutes due to a planetary hiccup.

[eddiememphis]

Blast as seen from space.

https://mobile.twitter.com/us_stormw...415721475?s=10

I do that after eating yogurt

[Jamnanc]

https://youtu.be/78s7DO5eehQ

[BPTactical]

Great read

https://theconversation.com/why-the-...etwitterbutton

[BushMasterBoy]

Barometric shockwave recorded in New Zealand from the volcanic blast. Notice To Airman alerts to not fly in the ash are probably already issued. Some boat docks in California have suffered damage.

[Hummer]

Interesting to see how this measures out and what impact it has.

All afternoon I've been researching for an Alaska vacation to include re visiting Katmai NP in NW AK where I spent some weeks camping, hiking, canoeing and fishing in 1983. Katmai is the site of the world's largest volcanic eruption in historical time, a simultaneous eruption of Mt. Katmai and Mt. Novarupta on the Alaska Peninsula in 1912. The erupted magma resulted in more than 4.1 cubic miles of air fall tuff and approximately 2.6 cubic miles of pyroclastic ash-flow tuff. The volume is equivalent to 230 years of eruption at Kilauea Hawaii or about 30 times the volume erupted by Mount St. Helens, Washington in 1980.

The ash blackened the sky across Alaska and western Canada for two days. The acid rain melted clothes on clotheslines in Seattle, and the darkened atmosphere reduced crop production around the world for two years.

I hiked through Katmai's Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes where steam fumaroles from the 1912 blast still rose through 700 vertical feet of ash that filled the valley and created a Grand Canyon like landscape. I camped and was charged by two brown bears in Research Bay where the 1915 National Geographic Society teams based to investigate the eruptions. I took a Grumman canoe through Lake Naknek and the Bay of Islands, portaged to Lake Grosvenor and then down the Savonoski River to the Iliak Arm of Naknek and back to Brooks Camp. 102 miles of raw adventure. I've always wanted to go back there again and fly over the volcano cauldrons.