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ExomatrixTV

16th January 2022, 20:13

Huge Volcanic Eruption In The South Pacific Has Just Been Filmed From Space!

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Huge explosion near Tonga: How does the massive volcanism in the South Pacific come about?

Never before has an undersea volcanic eruption been so intensely filmed as the eruption of Hunga-Tonga-Hunga-Ha’apai in the South Pacific on Friday evening. In the images from two weather satellites hovering 36,000 kilometers above the earth’s surface, the American Goes-17 and the Japanese Himawari-8, a huge cloud can be seen suddenly emerging from the sea shortly before sunset. Like a mushroom cloud, it spreads kilometers high over the entire island kingdom of Tonga within a few minutes.
Lightning flashed continuously in the cloud, and ash rained down in the Tongan capital of Nuku’alofa, 40 miles from the eruption site. The eruption was so strong that a dull rumbling could be heard in New Zealand, more than 2000 kilometers away. At the same time there was a tsunami warning for the entire Pacific region. The coast of the main Tongan island of Tongatapu was flooded. Hours later, even in Japan and on the Californian coast, wave heights of up to one meter were measured.
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The first reports of the submarine volcano were already in 1912. At that time, fishermen saw the sea “bubbling” between two small elongated islands. The uninhabited islands named Hunga-Tonga and Hunga-Ha’apai, each a little over a kilometer long, are the remains of an old crater rim of a previously unknown submarine volcano. It then remained largely dormant for almost 100 years, until in the spring of 2009, a few hundred meters west of Hunga-Ha’apai, a new island suddenly began to grow with a great deal of noise. Further eruptions in 2015 filled the space between the two original islands with ash, causing them to coalesce. Since then, the volcano has borne the name of both islands. Over the past year, more and more volcanic ash accumulated until the gap was completely filled.

source (https://bpsic.com/2022/01/16/huge-explosion-near-tonga-how-does-the-massive-volcanism-in-the-south-pacific-come-about/)

ExomatrixTV

16th January 2022, 20:29

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Giant Tonga Eruption Caught on Satellite Images

The moment an underwater volcano violently erupted in Tonga has been captured by satellite imagery.

Speeded-up footage from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows the eruption two times.

Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai has triggered a widespread tsunami threat - including in neighbouring New Zealand.

Read more: Latest news on tsunami warning after giant eruption (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-60007119)

source (https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-asia-60007163)

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Image source, Tonga Geological Services - Image caption, The volcano erupted for several days. This photo was taken a day before the eruption that caused the tsunami

A massive volcanic eruption in Tonga that triggered tsunami waves has smothered the Pacific islands in ash, cut power and severed communications.

Up to 80,000 people there could be affected, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) told the BBC.

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said the tsunami had wreaked "significant damage", washing boats ashore and battering beachside shops.

No deaths have been reported so far.

Information remains scarce, however, and New Zealand and Australia are sending surveillance flights to assess the extent of the damage.

Katie Greenwood of the IFRC in Fiji said that help was urgently needed.

"We suspect there could be up to 80,000 people throughout Tonga affected by either the eruption itself or from the tsunami wave and inundation as a result of the eruption," she said.

"That was a shock to people, so we do hold some concern for those outer islands and we're very keen to hear from people."

The underwater volcano erupted on Saturday (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-60007119), sending a plume of ash into the sky and triggering warnings of 1.2m (4ft) waves reaching Tonga. The eruption was so loud it could be heard in New Zealand, some 2,383km (1,481 miles) from Tonga.

Watch: Satellite images capture eruption of Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai

Locals say Tonga looks "like a moonscape" after being coated in a layer of volcanic ash.

The dust was reportedly contaminating water supplies and making fresh water a vital need, Ms Ardern said on Sunday.

Aid charities said the ash had prompted authorities to tell people to drink bottled water and wear face masks to protect their lungs.

As the sky darkened with ash, videos showed traffic jams as people fled low-lying areas by car. Hours later, Tonga's internet and phone lines went down, making the island's 105,000 residents almost entirely unreachable.

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Image source, Consulate of the Kingdom of Tonga
Images on social media showed flooding as the tsunami waves began

Prior to the largest eruption, the volcano had been erupting for several days. The Tonga Meteorological Agency had warned that the smell of sulphur and ammonia was being reported in some areas.

Ms Ardern said power was being restored to some parts of the island and mobile phones were slowly starting to work again. But the situation in some coastal areas remained unknown.

Unable to speak to their friends and family, many Tongans in Australia and New Zealand have grown concerned for their safety.

Fatima said she had not heard anything from her colleague who runs a seafront restaurant in Tonga's capital Nuku'alofa. "It's all very sad, we are hoping for the best," she told the BBC. "This will hit them so hard as they have been in lockdown a long time with no tourists visiting and now this."

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Satellite images suggest some outlying islands have been completely submerged by seawater.

Experts say the eruption of the Hunga-Tonga Hunga-Ha'apai volcano is one of the most violent in the region in decades.

It triggered tsunami warnings in several countries (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-60012337), including Japan and the US, where flooding hit some coastal parts of California and Alaska.

UK Foreign Office minister Zac Goldsmith called the situation in Tonga "shocking" and said Britain stood "ready to help and support our Commonwealth friend and partner in any way we can".

Satellite images offer glimpse at volcano's destruction

Scientists got their first look at Hunga-Tonga Hunga-Ha'apai post-eruption on Saturday when the EU's Sentinel-1A satellite flew overhead.

This spacecraft is a radar platform and can see through obscuring cloud and ash to the surface below.

It showed clearly that much of the crater rim that stood above the ocean waters had been destroyed - a testament to the ferocity of the blast.

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Researchers will be keen to understand the cause of a tsunami that produced waves not just on nearby islands but at beaches right around the Pacific.

To what extent was the explosion itself responsible? Pressure waves can make what are termed "meteotsunami". Or perhaps the displacement of water was the result of an unseen collapse of part of the volcano below the ocean surface.

More data in the coming days and weeks will establish the facts.

source (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-60009944)

ExomatrixTV

16th January 2022, 20:36

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There have been no reports of injuries, because communication with the nation went down after the eruption, The Associated Press reported (https://apnews.com/article/media-environment-and-nature-new-zealand-tonga-d434936e25079859df8261780976def8). But a local resident said she was inside making dinner when she heard the eruption at about 7 p.m. local time Saturday. "It was massive, the ground shook, our house was shaking. It came in waves, my younger brother thought bombs were exploding nearby," Taufa told Stuff.co.nz (https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/south-pacific/300496692/volcanic-eruption-near-tonga-felt-like-bombs-were-exploding-panic-on-the-ground-as-tsunami-waves-hit), a New Zealand news outlet.

Such intense blasts have the potential to produce tsunamis far from the source. In fact, a tsunami advisory was in effect for the U.S. Pacific Coast and Hawaii, with officials advising people to avoid the beaches and coastline. The Tonga Meteorological Service issued tsunami warnings (which is stronger than an "advisory") for Fiji and Samoa, The New York Times reported (https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/15/world/tonga-volcano-tsunami.html).

(https://www.space.com/tonga-tsunami-underwater-volcano-eruption) Here, the satellite camera's infrared channels show volcanic ash and sulfur dioxide gas. (Image credit: NOAA) (https://www.space.com/tonga-tsunami-underwater-volcano-eruption)Local officials said the powerful underwater eruption had a radius of 161.5 miles (260 km), and sent ash, steam and gas more than 12 miles (20 km) into the air, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA (https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/news/hunga-tonga-hunga-haapai-erupts-again)). The eruption was seven times more powerful than the most recent one of the same volcano on Dec. 20, 2021, NOAA said.

"This is a pretty big event — it's one of the more significant eruptions of the last decade at least," Shane Cronin, a volcanologist at the University of Auckland, told the BBC (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-60007119).

source (https://www.space.com/tonga-tsunami-underwater-volcano-eruption)

ExomatrixTV

16th January 2022, 20:45

Tsunami generated after volcanic eruption near Tonga | 7NEWS:

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Volcanic Eruption May Be Biggest Ever Seen From Space

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Huge underwater volcanic eruption sends tsunami waves crashing through Tonga | ABC News:

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Tonga remains cut off from the world following devastating tsunami | 7NEWS:

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DaveToo

16th January 2022, 20:46

ExomatrixTV

16th January 2022, 20:52

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Hunga Tonga Volcano Eruption Live: Tsunami Strikes As Aftermath:
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Significant damage feared in Tonga following tsunami hit:

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Tonga volcano eruption caused ‘significant damage’, says Ardern:

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Pacific volcano: New Zealand Sends Flight to Assess Tonga Damage (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-60009944)

Mare

16th January 2022, 22:39

What happened to that thread from a month or so ago where remote viewers all reported seeing a mushroom cloud? Could be relevant to this.

ExomatrixTV

16th January 2022, 23:01

What happened to that thread from a month or so ago where remote viewers all reported seeing a mushroom cloud? Could be relevant to this.

ALERT! Silver Rigging, Mushroom Clouds & Theta Cloud Gaming?! (Bix Weir):

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palehorse

17th January 2022, 03:42

Undersea cables were damaged due to the event, there is reports that Tonga people has no communication in the island right now. It was a very large explosion, people heard it as far as Fiji and Nieu island.

Bill Ryan

19th January 2022, 19:03

An update from Zero Hedge:

https://zerohedge.com/geopolitical/first-images-reveal-tonga-volcano-damage

First Images Reveal "Large-Scale" Damage After Volcano Blast And Tsunami Hit Tonga

The first satellite images of the Pacific island nation of Tonga reveal the extent of the horrific damage after a volcanic eruption (https://www.zerohedge.com/weather/undersea-volcano-eruption-triggers-massive-shockwave-tsunami-strikes-south-pacific-island) and tsunami on Saturday.

Satellite images shared by Maxar Technologies Tuesday show the tiny island nation is smothered in volcanic ash, and building structures were destroyed after a tsunami.

On Monday, we noted (https://www.zerohedge.com/weather/significant-damage-reported-tonga-after-massive-volcano) that all communication with the outside world had been severed for the next two weeks. The crux of the problem is a badly damaged undersea communications cable between Tonga and Fiji.

The first satellite image shows the island's main port in Nuku'alofa, Tonga's capital, covered in ash and damaged from the tsunami.

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Tonga's volcanic eruption appears to have damaged the island's international airport. There's water invasion evidence that may suggest runways are destroyed.

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One coastal village appears to have damaged building structures and roadways.

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An Australian Defence Force P-8A Poseidon patrol aircraft conducted a closer aerial observation on Monday, showing the ash-covered coastal area is completely devastated.

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The damage so far suggests Tonga is in desperate need of humanitarian aid.
Alexander Matheou, director of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, told CNN (https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/18/asia/tonga-volcano-tsunami-damage-intl-hnk/index.html) there is "large-scale coastal damage as a result of the tsunami wave."
"We are concerned especially for those low-lying islands close to the eruption itself," he added. "At the moment, we know very little."
While it could take weeks for communications to be restored on the island with the rest of the world, there is a radio blackout, and the true extent of the damage on the ground won't be known for weeks.

Bill Ryan

21st January 2022, 19:33

From Zero Hedge, yesterday:

https://zerohedge.com/weather/volcanic-eruption-600-times-more-powerful-hiroshima-many-tongans-went-deaf-during-explosion

Volcanic Eruption Was 600 Times More Powerful Than Hiroshima, Many Tongans Went Deaf During Explosion

Last week's eruption of the volcano near the Pacific island nation of Tonga was 600 times more powerful than the nuke dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, in World War II. As a result, the eruption was so loud that many Tongans went deaf after the first explosion.
"The first explosion…our ears were ringing and we couldn't even hear each other, so all we do is pointing to our families to get up, get ready to run," Marian Kupu, a journalist on Tonga, told Reuters (https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/tongans-deafened-by-volcanic-blast-they-fled-safety-2022-01-20/).
The eruption was so loud that it could be heard across the world, even thousands of miles away in Alaska.
"This might be the loudest eruption since Krakatau in 1883," Michael Poland, a geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey, told NPR.
On Tuesday, the first satellite images (https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/first-images-reveal-tonga-volcano-damage) shared by Maxar Technologies showed the tiny island nation is smothered in volcanic ash, and building structures were destroyed after a tsunami.

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Days later, with limited communications due to a severed (https://www.zerohedge.com/weather/significant-damage-reported-tonga-after-massive-volcano) undersea communications cable between Tonga and Fiji, pictures showed the devastation on city streets.

New Zealand's 1 News reveals the first look of the streets of Nuku'alofa, Tonga's capital, coated with ash.

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Areas on the water were utterly devastated by the tsunami

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The island's airport was cleared of ash and fixed on Thursday, allowing New Zealand and Australian military transport planes to deliver generators, hygiene supplies, freshwater, and communications equipment.

More from 1 News on the first view of devastated Tonga:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qg_G5wK652A

DaveToo

21st January 2022, 20:33

From Zero Hedge, yesterday:

https://zerohedge.com/weather/volcanic-eruption-600-times-more-powerful-hiroshima-many-tongans-went-deaf-during-explosion

.. New Zealand's 1 News reveals the first look of the streets of Nuku'alofa, Tonga's capital, coated with ash.

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Areas on the water were utterly devastated by the tsunami...

Very interesting name!

Bill Ryan

21st January 2022, 20:58

.. New Zealand's 1 News reveals the first look of the streets of Nuku'alofa, Tonga's capital, coated with ash.

Very interesting name!Fortunately, we have no Tongan members that I know of. If we had any, they might be rather offended. :)

Etymology: Tongan Nuku'alofa. From nuku (“abode”) + alofa (“love”). Literally, “abode of love”.

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Mythological origins

In the Tongan myth of the origin of Nukuʻalofa, it was said that the meaning of Nukuʻalofa is: nuku meaning abode, ʻalofa meaning love.

The name is said to have originated when Moʻungatonga, the 6th Tuʻi Haʻatakalaua (King who governs the daily business of Tonga on behalf of the Tuʻi Tonga or Sacred King of Tonga) sent his youngest son, Ngata (later to be 1st Tuʻi Kanokupolu) as governor to Hihifo (Western side of Tongatapu). It was a difficult decision for Ngata as the Tu’i Tonga and Tu’i Ha’atakalaua have been unable to control Hihifo. Ngata had many reasons to fear for his life as his predecessors had been killed by the chiefs and people of Hihifo.

When Ngata left Muʻa, the old capital and residence of the Tuʻi Tonga and Tuʻi Ha'atakalaua, he was escorted by Nuku (an uncle) and Niukapu (an older cousin), chiefly relatives of his father. They sailed their canoes with all their followers from Muʻa and debated abandoning Tonga and sailing directly to Samoa, the homeland of Ngata’s mother. It was decided not to abandon Tonga, but to pull their canoes up into the swamp area halfway between Muʻa and Hihifo in order to plan and prepare for their landing at Hihifo.

Ngata, Nuku and Niukapu decided to wrap their combined bodies under a large mat and land in Hihifo, giving the impression of a large man with three heads. This is the origin of the ʻUlutolu (Three Head Story) and of the Haʻa Tuʻi Kanokupolu, third lineage King of Tonga. They named the swampy area as Nuku (Abode) ʻAlofa (Love) or the Abode of Love, thus Nukuʻalofa.

First western records of Nukuʻalofa

On 10 June 1777, British captain James Cook (https://en-academic.com/dic.nsf/enwiki/9370) wrote of his arrival at their anchorage place. His description of the place confirmed, with his map, that this was the bay of Nukuʻalofa.
At length, about two in the afternoon, we arrived at our intended station. It was a very snug place, formed by the shore of Tongataboo on the South East, and two small islands on the East and North East. Here we anchored in ten fathoms water, over a bottom of oozy sand; distant from the shore one-third of a mile."[1] (https://en-academic.com/dic.nsf/enwiki/36302#cite_note-0)
Cook never used the name Nukualofa or any other spelling for the reports of this voyage, but he mentioned the island of Pangaimodoo (Pangaimotu) which was to the east of his anchorage position. Captain Cook also wrote that he travelled by canoes to visit Mooa (Muʻa) where Paulaho and other great men lived. The house that Paulaho provided was on the beach a third of a mile from the ship. Reference to his map shows that he must have landed and stayed in the Siesia area, the eastern part of modern Nukuʻalofa. Cook also drafted the first map of the bay of Nuku'alofa.

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The first recorded Map of Tongataboo Harbour as sketch by Captain Cook in 1777. It clearly Show the Bay of Nuku'alofa and he mark his anchored position near Pangaimotu. Small Islands of Nuku'alofa was named as in Atata, Pangaimotu, Makaha'a, Fetoa with phonetical spelling etc.

The first written record for Nuku'alofa is stated in the first dedicated book for Tonga by George Vason which was published in 1810. George Vason was an English missionary from the London Missionary Society (https://en-academic.com/dic.nsf/enwiki/1171785), who arrived in Tonga in 1797. George Vason wrote of their arrival that:
Before we could well come to an anchor, the ship was surrounded by the natives, who flocked to us from every adjacent Island. The place, before which we anchored, was called Noogollefa: it was near an Island, named Bonghy-moddoo; on which former navigators pitched their tents, as a convenient spot, on account of its separation from the main Island, to preserve themselves from being two much incommoded by the natives.[2] (https://en-academic.com/dic.nsf/enwiki/36302#cite_note-1)
That was the first mention of Nuku'alofa, spelled as Noogoollefa. Pangaimotu was spelled as Bongy-Moddoo by George Vason since Tongan writing and alphabet would be developed in 1826-27.

The second oldest book dedicated to Tonga was by William Mariner, adopted son of Finau 'Ulukalala, which was published in 1817. Mariner described his experiences during the years he was the adopted son of 'Ulukalala (1806–1810). He described the civil war and the siege of the Fort of Nuku'alofa, which fell to 'Ulukalala and his warriors.

The third attempt of Christian missionaries were recorded in April 1826, when two Tahitian London Missionaries were detained by Tupou the chief of Nuku'alofa.
In March 1826, the four men left Tahiti in the Minerva, their destination Fiji. But at Nuku’alofa, Tonga, their plans were disrupted by the high chief Tupou (Aleamotu’a). From Davies’ perspective the Tahitian were placed under detention at Tongatapu: “The chief called Tupou would not let them proceed. He had been himself a resident in Lageba and calls himself the friend of Tuineau, the chief of Lageba and as such he took possession of the present intended for the Fijian chief.[3] (https://en-academic.com/dic.nsf/enwiki/36302#cite_note-2)
The arrival of the Methodist missionaries in Nuku'alofa in 1827 reinforced the Christian faith. The persecution suffered by Christians in Hihifo and Hahake forced a lot of people to seek refugees in Nuku'alofa. Thanks to the encouragement of Tupou, the King of Nuku'alofa, this was the beginning of the expanding of Nuku'alofa to become the major center of Christianity in Tonga.

The final phase of the arrival of Christianity in Tonga was the arrival of Father Chevron, or Patele Sevelo, in 1842. He wrote that he arrived in Nuku'alofa in 1842 and met the Tu'i Kanokupolu Aleamotu'a who was baptised by the Wesleyan as Sosaia."

In conclusion, these arrival turned Nuku'alofa from a small village and fort into the center of Tonga during the arrival of Christianity.

From the earliest record for Nuku'alofa, the early writer always refer to the settlement as Noogollefa (1797), Nioocalofa (1806), Nukualofa (1826 by Methodist) and Noukou-Alofa (1842 by French Catholic Priest). There was no other mention of any other name of the settlement but only of the settlement or fort of Nuku'alofa.

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Johan (Keyholder)

21st January 2022, 22:54

How many members of the Avalon forum ever have been in Tonga, I have no idea.
Personally, I was there three times: once in 1985, then in 1990 and in 2005.
The country slid downward, so was my experience.

It had been a paradise, in 1985 it still was. I remember that when I arrived - in
the middle of the night by plane from the American West coast - on Tongatapu and
was driven by a 4x4 to Nuku'Alofa, the main street of the capital city had no lights,
no electricity at all.

5 years later that had changed. Another 15 years later, I hardly recognized the capital
at all. What I did notice was that there seemed to be a very large influence of Chinese
people. Why, I did not find out.

To me, the memory of this beautiful land (what it was when I first visited) always stayed
with me. During my days in the mirror industry (as marketing manager of a mirror producing
company) I even named an antique mirror "Tonga". Because when one flew by small plane
above the islands it looked just like the mirror, beautiful blues, greens and golden colors.
Later on, I would sell some of those to the builder who constructed "the Venetian" in Las Vegas.

Ha'apai was the nicest archipelago. Then Vava'u. I wonder what the situation there is now. These
islands are even harder to reach.

It's only a nation of a little over 100.000 people, they also were/are called "the Friendly Islands".
And it is also the only remaining indigenous monarchy in the Pacific.

As many other places on the planet, one could say, here also, "Paradise Lost". A shame.
It is one of the few countries where one can swim with whales...

Gwin Ru

22nd January 2022, 16:02

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... a scanning from space:

Tonga volcano eruption created puzzling ripples in Earth's atmosphere (https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00127-1)

David Adam
Nature (https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00127-1)
Tue, 18 Jan 2022 18:36 UTC
SOTT Comment: (https://www.sott.net/article/463326-Tonga-volcano-eruption-created-puzzling-ripples-in-Earths-atmosphere) We're through the looking glass here people!
Powerful waves ringing through the atmosphere after the eruption of Hunga Tonga-Hunga Haʻapai are unlike anything seen before.

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The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s GOES-West satellite captured the explosive eruption of Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai. © NOAA

Scientists are racing to understand a puzzling series of massive ripples in Earth's atmosphere triggered by the eruption of the Tongan volcano at the weekend. Satellite data shows that the event — which some fear might have devastated the Pacific-island nation — provoked an unusual pattern of atmospheric gravity waves. Previous volcanic eruptions have not produced such a signal, leaving experts stumped.
"It's really unique. We have never seen anything like this in the data before," says Lars Hoffmann, an atmospheric scientist at the Jülich Supercomputing Centre in Germany.
The discovery was made in images collected by the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS), mounted on Nasa's Aqua satellite, in the hours after the eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Haʻapai volcano on 14 January.

They show dozens of concentric circles, each representing a fast-moving wave in the gases of the atmosphere, stretching for more than 16,000 kilometres. The waves reached from the ocean surface to the ionosphere, and researchers think that they probably passed around the globe several times.

'Nice concentric wave patterns'
"This instrument has been operating for something like 20 years now and we have never seen such nice concentric wave patterns," Hoffmann adds.
Atmospheric gravity waves occur when air molecules in the atmosphere are vertically, rather than horizontally, disturbed in the air column. This can happen as wind picks up speed as it rises over a mountaintop, or as a result of convection in local weather systems.

The up-and-down waves transfer energy and momentum through the atmosphere, and often show their effects in the way in which they cause high clouds to form in a series of ripples.

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Images from the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder on NASA’s Aqua satellite show dozens of concentric circles, which are fast-moving atmospheric waves.© Lars Hoffmann, Jülich Supercomputing Centre. AIRS Level-1 data by NASA DES DISC

In theory, the rapid updraft of hot air and ash from an erupting volcano into the upper atmosphere could trigger gravity waves on a much larger scale. But nothing like this has been observed with previous eruptions analysed since the AIRS instrument was launched in May 2002.
"That's what's really puzzling us," says Corwin Wright, an atmospheric physicist at the University of Bath, UK.

"It must have something to do with the physics of what's going on, but we don't know what yet."
He and his co-workers suspect that a "great big, messy pile of hot gases" in the upper atmosphere might be what kicks the waves off. The hot gas is "going up high into the stratosphere and knocking the air around", he says.
SOTT Comment: (https://www.sott.net/article/463326-Tonga-volcano-eruption-created-puzzling-ripples-in-Earths-atmosphere) Or, the atmosphere's composition has fundamentally altered - electro-chemically - in recent decades, producing 'novel effects'. See 'chemtrails', for example, which are mostly jet contrails lingering longer in the atmosphere than they used to.
Eruption heard across the planet
The eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Haʻapai volcano was heard across the South Pacific, and even in parts of the United States. Ash has covered many regions of Tonga, but a loss of power, phone lines and Internet connectivity has made it difficult for aid agencies to assess the extent of injuries, fatalities and damage.

Wright, who was the first to spot the wave patterns in data supplied by Hoffmann, says that the images show what looks like a mixture of wave sizes and types.

The convection in the atmosphere seems to be "very complicated and bumpy, and it's generating a whole family of things at the same time", he says. "That is what we currently think is going on, but we've only been looking at it for a few hours."

The discovery was prompted by a tweet (https://twitter.com/sosprey/status/1482355319456075780) sent to Wright on 15 January from Scott Osprey, a climate scientist at the University of Oxford, UK, who asked: "Wow, I wonder how big the atmospheric gravity waves are from this eruption?!"

Explosive speed
Osprey says that the eruption might have been unique in causing these waves because it happened very quickly relative to other eruptions.
"This event seems to have been over in minutes, but it was explosive and it's that impulse that is likely to kick off some strong gravity waves," he says.
The eruption might have lasted moments, but the impacts could be long-lasting. Gravity waves can interfere with a cyclical reversal of wind direction in the tropics, Osprey says, and this could affect weather patterns as far away as Europe.
"We'll be looking very carefully at how that evolves," he says.
The imagery and data collected from the eruption has been "spectacular" and has presented scientists with an exciting opportunity, says Vicki Ferrini, a marine geophysicist at Columbia University in New York City. But she adds that she and others remain deeply concerned for the people of Tonga, particularly given the absence so far of detailed information on the scale of the disaster.

Researchers in New Zealand say that they are closely monitoring the volcano for further eruptions. "We are just keeping our ears to the ground," says Shane Cronin, a volcanologist at the University of Auckland. The volcano could be resupplied with large amounts of magma from deep underground and produce more explosive eruptions, he says. But if it has exhausted its main supply, it might produce only smaller eruptions, largely hidden beneath the surface of the ocean.

avid

22nd January 2022, 16:12

DaveToo

22nd January 2022, 20:14

Not natural - just like weather manipulation evidence. Why?
Is this a veiled threat? Just because they can….???
Done far enough away to demonstrate the power of scalar technology, without damaging too much of the world… at the moment? Who would do this???

**** Warning ****

Conspiracy theories like this will NOT be tolerated on Avalon!

(I know from previous experience)

avid

22nd January 2022, 20:28

Eh? How very dare you call me a conspiracy theorist DaveToo :p

edina

25th January 2022, 04:05

This blog post offers different perspectives as to how big the explosion from the Tonga eruption was.

How big was the Tonga eruption? (https://graphics.reuters.com/TONGA-VOLCANO/lgpdwjyqbvo/)

It shows overlays of the explosion at it's peak, 650 km (approx 404 miles) in diameter over maps of places around the planet, for example, Great Britain and Ireland, or Spain, or Vietnam/Cambodia, or Southern California.

Around the time of the initial eruption, a cloud measuring 38 km (24 miles) wide is thrust into the atmosphere. Its diameter already measures almost twice the length of Manhattan, New York. One hour later, it appears to measure around 650 km wide, including shock waves around its edge.

The scale of the umbrella cloud is comparable to the 1991 Pinatubo eruption in the Philippines and is one of largest of the satellite era, according to Michigan Tech volcanologist Simon Carn in a NASA blog post.

Carlitos

25th January 2022, 10:57

palehorse

25th January 2022, 11:43

I have searched the web, and have not found, nor ever seen a volcano explode so violently, in one single event. does lead one to think.. (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?117519-Was-the-15-Jan-2022-Hunga-Tonga-Volcano-Eruption-Artificially-Engineered/page2&highlight=Tonga)

Krakatoa in the 18th century, but all historical reports does not match with this one. An explosion of this size would spit chunks of lava in the air which would cool very quickly forming stones, in the Krakatoa event it was noted by people sailing in the area that those stones fell right in the deck's ship and on shore. There were reports saying something about vaporized ashes, very thin ashes in this recent event in Tonga.
I am no expert on these things, but it is very strange indeed, I doubt anything else than what we saw already will come out of this, in a few months nobody will be talking about.

Carlitos

25th January 2022, 14:02

I have searched the web, and have not found, nor ever seen a volcano explode so violently, in one single event. does lead one to think.. (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?117519-Was-the-15-Jan-2022-Hunga-Tonga-Volcano-Eruption-Artificially-Engineered/page2&highlight=Tonga)

Krakatoa in the 18th century, but all historical reports does not match with this one. An explosion of this size would spit chunks of lava in the air which would cool very quickly forming stones, in the Krakatoa event it was noted by people sailing in the area that those stones fell right in the deck's ship and on shore. There were reports saying something about vaporized ashes, very thin ashes in this recent event in Tonga.

Indeed, there were a few events supposedly larger back in history, but LiveScience reports that "The eruption was so powerful that researchers need to invent a whole new classification for it." (https://www.livescience.com/tonga-volcano-hiroshima-bomb)

ExomatrixTV

25th January 2022, 15:39

Aftermath of the Biggest Eruption Ever Seen from Space - Tonga:

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Tonga Eruption Important Updates And What We've Learned So Far:

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