Tonga Eruption Blasted Unprecedented Amount of Water Into ... - NASA
2022年8月2日 · When the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano erupted on Jan. 15, it sent a tsunami racing around the world and set off a sonic boom that circled the globe twice. The underwater eruption in the South Pacific Ocean also blasted an enormous plume of water vapor into Earth’s stratosphere – enough to fill more than 58,000 Olympic-size swimming ...
Record-smashing Tonga volcano sheds new light on how underwater …
2024年1月26日 · It was a record-breaking blast that swept the world — several times over, as it turns out. A little over two years ago, the most powerful underwater volcano ever recorded erupted off the coast...
2022 Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai eruption and tsunami
On 22 and 23 December 2021, 8-to-14-kilometre-high (5.0 to 8.7 mi) plumes containing sulfur dioxide drifted to the north-north-east and spread over the Niuatoputapu, Haʻapai and Vavaʻu island groups.
Tonga Eruption Blasted Unprecedented Amount of Water Into …
2022年8月2日 · When the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano erupted on Jan. 15, it sent a tsunami racing around the world and set off a sonic boom that circled the globe twice. The underwater eruption in the South Pacific Ocean also blasted an enormous plume of water vapor into Earth’s stratosphere – enough to fill more than 58,000 Olympic-size swimming ...
A volcanic eruption sent enough water vapor into the …
2023年12月20日 · The eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano on January 15, 2022, produced the largest underwater explosion ever recorded by modern scientific instruments, blasting an enormous amount of water and volcanic gases higher than any other eruption in …
Massive undersea eruption filled atmosphere with water
2022年7月27日 · The eruption was the most powerful ever recorded, causing an atmospheric shock wave that circled the globe four times, and sending a plume of debris more than 50 kilometers into the atmosphere. But it didn’t stop there.
The Tonga eruption explained, from tsunami warnings to sonic …
2022年1月15日 · The volcanic plume generated record amounts of lightning before producing a blast heard thousands of miles away. Here’s what geologists say drove the event—and what may happen next.
The day an underwater volcano almost wiped out a nation
Scientists say the event underscored the dangers posed by submarine volcanoes, which are found by the thousands in every ocean on Earth, some of them perilously close to coastlines. But more than...
Atmospheric Effects of Hunga Tonga Eruption Lingered for Years
2024年8月22日 · On 15 January 2022, the underwater volcano Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha‘apai erupted, unleashing a powerful tsunami that destroyed homes and caused four deaths throughout Tonga.
Burst of underwater explosions powered Tonga volcano eruption …
2022年6月8日 · Researchers are starting to piece together why the eruption of an underwater volcano in Tonga was so explosive — and what happened in the aftermath.