A few hours ago I heard thunder and thought that's super weird to hear thunder in January while snowing in Anchorage. Went back to bed the got a tsunami warning on my phone. Apparently NWS is confirming people in Alaska and Hawaii at least heard the sonic boom from a Tongan volcano and maybe other west coast people will hear it later. That seems insane!
Anyway hopefully this one is a dud by the time that water hits the coast and I hope Tonga is alright. It killed their internet apparently so I don't think there are good reports coming out yet.
https://www.tsunami.gov
Stay safe coastal people!
Crazy...
I was just checking the weather at Cannon Beach an hour or so from here (Portland, OR) because we were thinking of taking the dog for a run on the beach, and it came up with a tsunami warning!
Tsunamis suck. Most of the time it's a 2 ft surge but every once in a while they wash away cities and you never know it's there. Plenty of people still around here that moved after 1964 washed away homea in Portage and Valdez and they had to move the townsites. That one even killed folks in the PNW too. Something about weather or geological events that impact places thousands of miles away freaks me out. If it was 200 years ago people would be berkeleyed.
Damn yeah I saw this vid making the rounds this morning. Lotta power in that boom.
In reply to Jesse Ransom :
I'm literally on the beach this weekend. This was the tsunami.
My view now:
In reply to johndej :
Yeah it looks like an old school H bomb test underwater at bikini atoll
Wow! The shock wave radiating outward in the satellite photos is amazing
I saw that satellite image on the news - pretty wild.
Planetary level energy is no joke.
I wonder how this compares to Krakatoa?
In reply to johndej :
Its crazy how that puts the rotational speed of the earth in perspective. That shadow should move at approximately 1000mph across the surface. The shockwave appears to move at roughly the same speed in this video.
NOHOME
MegaDork
1/15/22 11:45 p.m.
Brett_Murphy (Agent of Chaos) said:
Planetary level energy is no joke.
I wonder how this compares to Krakatoa?
Was Krakatoa the one that made for a year long winter in many places?
I have this planetary temperature self-regulation theory where heating the atmosphere is going to lessen heat dissipation from inside the planet. This buildup of energy inside the planet will in turn lead to more volcanoes acting as heat release valves, tossing ash into the air and blocking the sun, hence cooling the planet. Yay closed loop systems.
It will suck to live on the planet during this adjustment.
NOHOME said:
Was Krakatoa the one that made for a year long winter in many places?
No, that was Mt Tambora in 1815. Krakatoa was 1883 (well, the most recent one). On the VEI (kinda like the richter scale but for volcanic eruptions) Mt Tambora was a 7 while Krakatoa was a 6.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Tambora
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1883_eruption_of_Krakatoa
From what I have read there isn't enough data on the new one to measure it yet.
