Agthatbuilds said:

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cbr said:

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Interesting thought. It is time lapse of course. That shock wave remained visible for a radius of over 1500 miles, which would probably take 1-2 hours? But the scary thing is, wouldnt a shockwave visible from space do severe damage to manmade structures for most if not all of its visible radius? I guess the world can count itself pretty lucky it went off in one of the most remote places on earth, and hope its done.

And lol-'declared dormant on tuesday'. Ygbkm

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How much did it being an underwater volcano dampen the blast?

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A metric crap ton

very informative, thanks for posting

Malachi Constant said:

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Great recap of everything:

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The fact that it spent all last week with intermittent eruptions kinda shuts down the "it was declared dormant" claims.

Kenneth_2003 said:

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Malachi Constant said:

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Great recap of everything:

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The fact that it spent all last week with intermittent eruptions kinda shuts down the "it was declared dormant" claims.

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That was BS anyway.

It erupted in 1912, 1937, 1988, 2009 and 2014-15 prior to this week.

Flooding in Peru has killed 2 so far, nearly 6,500 miles away
https://theweek.com/natural-disasters/1009064/two-dead-from-flooding-in-peru-as-damage-to-tonga

Pray for Tonga and the surrounding areas.

A little bit of levity because the area is special to me (nsfw):

FOOTAGE

Wrong graph

Scott Manley is one of my favorite YouTube channels. He mostly talks about space flight, but every once and awhile he does a video like this.

My main concern is that this volcano might not be done erupting.

Astonishing amounts of lightning, too. Far more strikes (events) than they've observed with past eruptions:

"The thing just went gangbusters," says Chris Vagasky, meteorologist and lightning applications manager at the Finland-based weather measurements company Vaisala. "We were starting to get 5,000 or 6,000 events per minute. That's a hundred events per second. It's unbelievable."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/the-tonga-eruption-explained-from-tsunami-warnings-to-sonic-booms/ar-AASP3mX

Hoping to get updates today as the sun rises out there today.

It’s shown how important it is: we are effectively the only stream of revenue of any sort that can get into Tonga now (via @Blockstream bitcoin satellite kit gifted by @Excellion last year) as no internet=no fiat banking or remittances can get in. Only us. Let that sink in.

— Lord Fusitu'a (@LordFusitua) January 17, 2022

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-60027360

As I'm looking at that set of photos, I'm wondering how this thing was declared "dormant" last Tuesday (which I think is the day someone posted earlier in the thread). Or if it was ever actually declared dormant.