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Massive eruption at Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai produces huge shockwave and tsunami

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    I wonder if we had satellites and all the other sensing technology when Krakatoa exploded what that would've looked like.
     
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    I've always been fascinated by that eruption.

    The eruption was one of the deadliest and most destructive volcanic events in recorded history and explosions were so violent that they were heard 3,110 kilometres (1,930 mi) away in Perth, Western Australia, and Rodrigues near Mauritius, 4,800 kilometres (3,000 mi) away.[2]

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    Have you heard of the Tambora eruption? That was even bigger, happened in generally the same region, and changed weather patterns globally where it was snowing in the summer. I used to love reading about volcanic eruptions in history and Krakatoa and Tambora are the 2 most-recent ones that boggle my mind in their sheer power. If you lived anywhere near those places, you'd probably think the world was coming to an end (if you survived). Hell, as the article below shows, you probably thought that even if you lived nowhere near the Tambora eruption after the changes it caused globally :

    https://www.thoughtco.com/the-year-without-a-summer-1773771
     
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    I believe a present day Tambora level eruption would be major human extinction event.
     
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    Given how active that volcano still is it's possible that island could be built back up in a few years.
     
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    NASA ICON Finds Effects of Massive Tonga Volcanic Eruption Reached Space

    When the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha‘apai volcano erupted on January 15, 2022, it sent atmospheric shock waves, sonic booms, and tsunami waves around the world. Now, scientists are finding the volcano’s effects also reached space.

    Analyzing data from NASA’s Ionospheric Connection Explorer, or ICON, mission and ESA’s (the European Space Agency) Swarm satellites, scientists found that in the hours after the eruption, hurricane-speed winds and unusual electric currents formed in the ionosphere – Earth’s electrified upper atmospheric layer at the edge of space.

    “The volcano created one of the largest disturbances in space we’ve seen in the modern era,” said Brian Harding, a physicist at University of California, Berkeley, and lead author on a new paper discussing the findings. “It is allowing us to test the poorly understood connection between the lower atmosphere and space.”

    https://scitechdaily.com/nasa-icon-finds-effects-of-massive-tonga-volcanic-eruption-reached-space/
     
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