What Next for 2020? Volcanoes of Course!

Minusorange · 20 Nov 2021 at 15:26

It has reached the UK now

JBuk · 20 Nov 2021 at 16:15

bjorkiii said:
Reports of a earthquake or large sonic boom in North yorkshire around 4 oclock, thoughts and prayers please.

pounds worth of damages reported

Jokester · 21 Nov 2021 at 09:14

bjorkiii said:
Sounds like a sonic boom, very worried dog in Carlin How though maybe a go-fundme page being set up later.

Was a Swiss F18 going supersonic apparently.

Minusorange · 21 Nov 2021 at 18:04

More volcanoes becoming active

JamesH85 · 4 Dec 2021 at 11:13

It's Semeru time!

https://www.independent.co.uk/asia/...meru-eruption-volcano-indonesia-b1969765.html

Just look at the amounts of ash!

Pigeon_Killer · 15 Jan 2022 at 10:17

2022 is also the year of Volcanos. One just erupted off the coast of Tonga and they've just been hit by a Tsunami.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1482229220415721475

bjorkiii · 15 Jan 2022 at 10:19

The eruption looked huge :eek:

.

Neil79 · 15 Jan 2022 at 10:40

bjorkiii said:
The eruption looked huge .

The plumes of gas, smoke and ash pouring from the volcano reached 20km into the sky, Tonga Geological Services said.
The eight-minute eruption was so violent it could be heard as "loud thunder sounds" in Fiji, more than 800km (500 miles) away, according to officials in the capital Suva. The Fijian Government has issued a tsunami advisory and opened evacuation centres for people in low-lying coastal areas.

Minusorange · 15 Jan 2022 at 17:37

This guys channel is great for volcano related stuff

wez130 · 15 Jan 2022 at 20:12

Could hear the air pressur booms from the Tonga eruption from here in NZ, we've had some aftershocks from it too though, we had one in my area as I was leaving work yesterday afternoon but I didn't feel it. We're on tsunami warning in north island atm.

Rroff · 16 Jan 2022 at 02:47

The satellite view of the explosion is pretty impressive.

Minusorange · 16 Jan 2022 at 03:49

https://theconversation.com/why-the...was-so-violent-and-what-to-expect-next-175035

Sounds like it was pretty massive on Krakatoa levels and from the underwater caldera according to this article, could be the beginning of more eruptions

clv101 · 16 Jan 2022 at 08:49

First direct SO2 measurements come in around 0.4 mt, compared with around 18 mt for Pinatubo ('91). Pinatubo caused global cooling of ~0.6C for 15 months, so far this eruption is not of the scale to have detectable climate impacts.

Global shock wave was impressive, my weather station picked up the pressure spike around 15 hours after the explosion.

MikeTimbers · 16 Jan 2022 at 18:10

Allegedly an ash cloud that would cover the UK from London to Edinburgh. When you consider the original island was tiny, that is an impressive escalation.

wez130 · 16 Jan 2022 at 19:33

It's not normally like this so I'm assuming this is the remains of the tsunami reaching our shores...

Malevolence · 17 Jan 2022 at 18:59

Scott Manley has a video.

Rroff · 18 Jan 2022 at 23:45

Interesting that the blast was estimated to be equivalent to a 10Mt nuclear weapon give or take.

Rroff · 20 Jan 2022 at 22:33

Good illustration of the overall volcano here (not sure the original source):

https://youtu.be/_28FnZUo6So?t=214

Potential there for an even bigger event :s

Minusorange · 20 Jan 2022 at 22:57

Rroff said:
Potential there for an even bigger event :s

Yes Krakatoa in 1883 was 20x as explosive as this one and was a similar situation of water getting into the magma vent after partial collapse, getting blocked and causing steam explosion

I don't think we'll see another one here until it has rebuilt the island again as there's nothing left to collapse and block the vent though

Minusorange · 11 Apr 2022 at 14:39

Looks like the Azores is getting ready for an eruption