Tonga Volcanic Eruption & Tsunami

[Stickybottle]

The US and Japan warn citizens near pacific coastlines to move to safer areas

Quite an eruption on the satellite images :

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-60007119

[Tilly2]

Scary images. Such unleashed power!

[jno]

pretty awesome. Apparently the waves in Tonga were up to 3ft high. But Tonga's very close to the site - I'd be surprised if anything like that reached LA.

[Togo]

We have spent £billions on "reducing" the atmospheric carbon content to placate the eco loons, and this eruption has put more than we could eliminate in decades into the air in minutes ... with more to come. This is a titch in terms of volcanic possibilities, wait until the big one hits and we have turned off all the power stations. I don't think that the people of Earth now have the mindset to be capable of rebuilding civilisation.

[tiggerblue10]

Saw that earlier and couldn't believe the size of the eruption. I feel bad for the people of Tonga. Most of the island is probably covered in ash as well as sea water by now.

I'm sure the US and Japanese will be fine. I would've thought the Australian and New Zealand coastlines would be affected more.

[jno]

you might be right, tigger. Here's a NZ marina hit by a wave 2 metres above the high tide line - a mixture of tsunami and a cyclone (hurricane) blowing in from Fiji

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/evacuations-as-surge-from-cyclone-cody-and-tonga-eruption-destroys-boats-in-tutukaka-northland/QNI5GQKFSCK52KNHXAT5VAA6DE/

[lady-janine]

Sounds and looks dreadful. Not the richest nation and so many of their poor people will suffer.

[lankeela]

I have a friend who has a brother and other relatives living there, and they cannot get in touch as the power is down. Very worrying time for the family. Someone in New Zealand said they heard it from there.

[JimF]

We are living on borrowed time in terms of destruction of the Earth. Basically, do we have enough time to develop technology which could divert an asteroid from hitting the planet? Or to provide some means of valve for Yellowstone? Not to mention the Azores. However, there's little we could ever do against a massive coronal mass ejection, let alone a gamma ray burst.

[douglas9401]

We'll be fine as long as we have Bruce Willis and Will Smith.

Don't have nightmares.