Volcanic Eruption May Be Biggest Ever Seen From Space 

Mainstream news media speculating wildly about possible impending catastrophe? I can't believe they'd do that!

@@ineffable0ne Im_shocked__well_not_that_shocked.jpg

The imaging available today is just astounding.

Absolutely! I’ve watched everything I can find and this is the most comprehensive and concise piece of reporting! I’m rather angry he isn’t getting the views he deserves. 🌋 🌊 🌀

True

Wow….

Yeah, we're in the West of Fiji and all of the doors were shaking, and the pressure build up indoors with the door closed and windows open was enough to start hurting our ears.

Just wow... Thanks for the update. Stay safe!

Wow, a truly earth shattering event. Ringing in 2022 with a bang.

Yeah we heard it in nz

just think what of happens when yellowstone goes

@@tminer2110 pretty much ull be a goner as well

Maybe we just can’t fathom how big the explosion was…

It is though. It just speaks of its magnutude.

@@tminer2110 bye bye america, thats what happens.

Yeah it's amazing. And incredibly powerful

amazing that we have the tools to view it like this

The what?

Our dog woke us up here in Alaska when the sounds got here. He is sensitive to pressure changes and even fireworks off in the distance effects him.

Absolutely awesome!!!! Super stocked of the quality to see the waves also

Geologyhub has some great analysis of this event here on youtube as well.

Definitely not a nuclear explosion

So basically one vulcan eruption can bring down temperatures and stop global warming? How nice! Why don't we just blow up some nukes then and stop the ice melting that everybody say is manmade and not just natural progress of warming up after the iceage...Blow the nukes!

You believe that’s a video from space!? Priceless!!

CGI is getting better all the time.

dont watch cnn they are too biased and scientifically incorrect not to mention politically

@@alexmcaruthur6966 Oddly enough, CNN is roughly 'center' in terms of US Media coverage. Granted, that's center-right overall, not to mention the heavy sensationalism that comes from the founder of 24 hour cable news.

CNN is leftist propaganda

@@mrbyzantine0528 the above statement is 💯 % factually INCORRECT and Everyone KNOWS IT.

@@mrbyzantine0528 Wow bot troll

Were those actual storms or just the tradition of labeling low pressures as "storm" on the barometer scale?

@@johndododoe1411 In this context, in English, "storm" means cumulonimbus (thunderstorm).

Thats interesting, so the pressure wave alone had weather effects. Never knew that something like this can happen. Thanks for sharing your point of view on the event.

That's amazing.

@@johndododoe1411 Isolated thunderstorms were forming all along NSW yesterday, I can see though how a pressure wave would trigger than rain to start before it normally would, very interesting.

This volcano is really small compared to other historically massive volcanoes. The reason why it gained so much tractions is because it was caught with HD cameras from space, and the internet. It does make me wonder how massive st helena and pinatubo would look like if we have all the satellites, cameras and sensors back then. Imagine seeing tambora's eruptions, or better any supervolcanoes. Awesome AND frightening.

Thank you, what a relieve! Really looking for a nice warm summer this year. :)

Do you have a source for this?

Reason I'm asking is the estimate from an Australian professor is VEI 5 or 6 which would make it similar to Mount St Helens.

Mt. Greta Thunderdome.. 1 billion with a B tuns of huey

Wow. Incredible!

Civil Engineer here. Love that. Thank you for sharing.

Please add my "Wow!" to Jim's below! Amazing.

😲

It also recorded secondary wave, about 5 hours 30 minutes later - I mean it's the same wave, but this time comming from the other side, taking the longer path around the globe (24000km).

Say hi to Russ for me!

Santa Cruz, Solomon Islands?

@@treefarm3288 Santa Cruz is a city on central California’s coast

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The birds (dinosaurs who survived) must have an innate response to events like this. There would have been many back in the time when the Earth was younger.

I would really love to see if any pictures were taken!

@@user-vp1sc7tt4m innate response to this? Yes. It's called ears.

Imagine an eruption like this on solid ground and in areas where people are living. Let's hope it's not coming to something like that.

He's on the ball hey... As soon as anything like this happens I'm on the lookout for a Scott Manley video...

We don't write mars. We write all planets with a capital letter. So we live on Earth, not earth

I could not have put this any better myself. Thanks

Like to make a comment to Scott Manley: If you slow down the video at speed of 25% you could see something going into the crater/or on the point of eruption (at 7:06 onwards) Speculating it looks weird (especially for 3 main reasons - lately been hearing about Korea nuclear test(?), sonic boom, and 'no acid' contrary to expert prediction.

@Daniel Kintigh he did not say that he said similar events caused that. so its a possibility, but considering the fact that it already impacted the weather globally with just its pressure wave the chance is higher. also please understand that we have been seeing a increase in ashy Vulcanic eruptions in the last year more ash in the sky equals less sun reaching the surface so yeah it might cool things down or it might just heat things up because of the extra green house gasses being released as well.

That's a crazy story! Thank you for sharing it with us :) I'm so sorry to hear of your condition, I wish the best for you!

Similar thing happened to me. When there are sudden atmospheric pressure changes, I get migraines. Yesterday, at around the time this would have hit me here in Canada, I got an incredibly bad migraine.. Just watched this video now and had that thought.. Could be a coincidence, but yeah, it took me out for the rest of the day.

I agree

Well not for the public at least, that is.

@@benbaselet2026 what was the US military using in the 80s? was it those ones that Hubble came from ? Or was that earlier technology?

space-using species? Don't get ahead of your self, so far the only thing even remotely considered as ''space exploration'' in any sort of way shape or form, is ISS, and that thing is essentially constantly with one leg inside the the atmosphere, just because space x claims we could live on marst, doesn't mean it's happening. Also, while i find this sort of news entertaining, the truth is that at some point the cost of having ability to relay these sort of events world-wide is just not worth it. For example, what benefit did you gain from knowing about this? Other than the entitled perception that for some mythical reason you should. Explosions and events like this should be recorded in greatest detail possible, and should be archived for future references...for scientists, researchers and schools, not your random citizen at his home for the purpose of entertainment that he will gain nothing from, and most likely will forget about within week.

@@Bastacat it helped me to admire and respect nature more, she works on scales we hardly imagine. The Shockwave through the atmosphere shows the power.

We had the pretty good technology, we we're just preoccupied with the Soviet nuclear program.

B... Blown away... 😐

There is 0 earth rotation.

@@fpvangel4495 0 rotation huh.... interesting please explain more

@@plark7323 ok if the earth is spinning at 1k miles per hour and we are hurtling around the sun at over 400k per hour While the sun is storming through the universe at 666k miles per hour.... check out the 666 number why have we seen the same constellations for centuries. Can you explain that to me ????

@@KHZ555 the stars we see are light years away, they are mostly part of the Milky Way, the galaxy our Solar System is in. They are moving too, just as our Sun is. The whole Galaxy rotates on itself, doing one full rotation every 220 million years

Thx for pointing this out.

I heard it in Opotiki..... Like a low 'thump'.

The infrasonic noise from that has to be insane.

I was wondering what that noise was!

What time was it? In Chch, had no idea

oh thank god i thought that was me slamming my butt on the sofa.

@@davidreese1044 I'm on the Peninsula and we heard it last night. I kept going outside to try and figure out what I was hearing.

@@davidreese1044 about 7pm, I think it was only heard near the north coast of north island

Pretty sure I head this in coastal Central QLD, it sounds like a cross between a solid tump and weird sounding distant thunder. It was only brief, no one else seemed to have heard it, so unsure what I heard was related to the eruption. Timing seemed about right though.

I heard it all the way in Alaska. Sounded like someone stomping on the roof

@@15gamershaven89 It's amazing it went that far. I guess I'm not surprised though, looking at that shock wave.

Incredible indeed.

Here in NZ too but sadly I didn't know about the eruption until afterwards!

I’m in New Plymouth, and definitely heard it last night. It sounded like a distant cannon/thunder from here. No idea what it was till this morning. Amazing thing to hear.

I didn't know what happened till next day but one of my dogs knew and had been acting wierd for 2 days . That evening he just sat in driveway looking like we had company coming .

Sometimes what seems as "nature" are actually ancient Babylonian technologies playing out as "natural events" and "celestial bodies". The rabbit hole is deep my friend.

@@juliolua2104 satanic fables you are referring to? God is in charge and in control of so called mother nature! Ask jesus in your heart and ask for forgivness of sins before its too late. Jesus is coming He promises!

@@lesajackson3880 Why are you being so ignorant? I AM a follower of Jesus. Jesus never said walk blindly through this world. If you blindly follow doctrines and narratives you will end up in the fire that "burns for eternity". Don't be foolish as to label knowledge Satanic just because you lack knowledge in the matter... It only shows how foolish and blind you really are. Now run along if you don't have any real knowledge to contribute. Everybody knows Jesus is King. Be practical my young friend... humbleness may lead you into becoming knowledgeable and wise one day.

@@lesajackson3880 ...And if your waiting for Jesus these days when he abounds in his flock might be a signifying point for you to truly find a good church or congregation to belong to until you can begin to establish a significant relationship with our Lord and Savior.

In Perth! Bloody hell, that's a long way from Tonga...

Even a guy from Germany showed the pressure readings from his private station. That is 16000km away, 80% around the earth, and still clearly visible.

O_O😲

Jesus that's scary and impressive!

Here in the Netherlands some people caught it with a smart watch

The view from lower orbiting ISS (on whatever passes brings that area into their daytime line of sight) must be like viewing hurricanes...astounding, until you consider those in danger below.

Saitama would be proud

Crazy you can even measure it across the American continent.

@Bobb Grimley The satellite POV is across thousands of kilometers. "Slow" is quite the relative term at that scale.

@Bobb Grimley you best read a dictionary before shooting your mouth again.

That’s the first thing I noticed when I saw this, that pressure waving really on the move.

Luckily it happened under water, meaning a lot of that was steam, which probably multiplied the volcano exploding

Imagine being a Tongan fisherman within visual range of the underwater volcano went it suddenly blew up... Rip ear drums...

Do you think the pressure wave went all the way and fell off the earth? 🙃

There is a video on yt with two guys on Fiji chilling and filming on the coast, when suddenly they hear like an incredibly big explosion and they shout and jump because of fear

That's because it is passion content, not grifting clickbait.

I find your grasp of the English language amazing

GIving a damn is a big part of it.

There definitely was some abnormal tides/small tsunamis, quite a big surge around the Coromandel. Definitely helped by the storm surge the from the cyclone.

Pedantically of course if the ground moved detectably it was a seismic event and arguably an earthquake: one caused by a volcano rather than a fault-slip event. Edit to add: Indeed with a volcano in a fault zone it is also plausible that a fault slip triggered the volcano anyway

You should look up the history of Krakatoa and Tambora. Those eruptions also gave off widely heard booms.

We had a 5.8 Magnitude Quake Here in Wanganui

we did hear them too in Napier! A huge thud noise like a bomb. I even went outside to see if maybe a building or somthing had collpased.

Probably because they still didn’t know what happened…

I agree this channel as well as Anton Petrov makes extremely well informed videos. Anton will be making a video covering this very soon.

Probably because they haven't figured out how to blame Trump for a volcano.

@@shadowmancer7040 Just give it some time, I'm sure they will!

USAF/USSR: 'We humans make some big nuclear bombs" Tonga: Hold my hidden underwater super volcano

Now imagine if the super volcano in Yellowstone erupts

I would be surprised if the death count doesn't hit the hundreds, or even thousands. With how hard it is to establish communication, I fear things are pretty bad in the immediate vicinity.

@@Leyrann If I recall correctly only five people died in Anchorage from the 1964 Alaskan earthquake, which was *really big!* A 9.2 big earthquake.

@@UncommonSense-wm5fd i am not sure how that makes sense: a wiggled cable would be damaged or not depending on the violence of the wiggles; but if undamaged internally it would be working throughout the event. I have no actual info but my best guess is that the place where the cable lands is damaged or maybe even just lost power. If the cable escaped direct damage from the volcano then any damage is most likely to have been near land: that is because over deep ocean a tsunami both has less amplitude and is weakest near the ocean floor: it is the funnelling in effect as the wave reaches shallow water that makes it much more of a monster than it is in deep waters. They will soon know: there is cunning equipment that can locate damage from one end of a cable before they send the cable-layer ships out fishing. So long as they predict the same point of damage from each end they know exactly where to look. Multiple damage (three or more spaced points) is harder for them...

In Croatia, 17.000 km from Tonga, air pressure fluctuated around 2hPa. First shockwave came from East passed around 20:45 CET (19:45 UT), and second wave came from West after traveling for 23.000 km and passed this morning, Jan 16th 02:05 CET (01:05 UT).

Alaskan here, can confirm. We thought it was Ft Richardson doing early morning artillery drills, but even people south of The base heard it coming from the south.

The record for the loudest sound ever recorded was set by the Krakatoa eruption of 1883, which was audible as far as Perth, 2,800 miles away. The distance from Tonga to Alaska is more than 6,000 miles.

@@renerpho So the Perth Observatory will now have to hand its Gold Medal of Deafness to Alaska?

you got a link to the swiss pressure data? trying to find it but my google foo ain't that good

Wild ain't it? Just think how insane it was for those living in Tonga. This is the closest that anyone born since the nuclear test bans, will get to hearing or otherwise experiencing something on the scale of a nuclear blast (assuming nobody decides to launch one). Just think how much more intense it would have been if it happened in Alaska. 80% of the volcanoes in the US, and 8% of those in the world, are in Alaska, mostly along the Aleutian archipelago. It'll probably happen at least once within your lifetime if you live there long enough. There's minor eruptions there basically annually already

I'm seeing a lot of credible reports from Anchorage as well as it showing up on weather stations. My guess is that the geography there amplified it... yall do live in a big half-bowl after all ;)

That is amazing how much power was involved to hear it from there. What city are you in?

I would pay money to see the look on the faces of the guys at the nuclear blast monitoring center when that data hit their system lol

Less than fleas, even.

THIS PIC HAS BEEN TAKEN FROM A PLANE, NOT FORM A "SPACE-SHIP."

Spam comment. Another person posted the exact same comment. Bots working overtime

Probably like a big ass volcano.

@@Connection-Lost hmmm, yes, the floor is made of floor

Mostly effusive eruptions -- hence it being more or less a shield volcano.

No they're still there it would just depend on a ton of stuff going on for that to happen in which case the Tsunami around the Pacific rim would have been FAR worse as it entirely depends on how much water is displaced.

Excellent points…

Based on Geology Hub channel's coverage of this most of the island(s) was destroyed

@@Dragrath1 The island the volcano itself is on is likely gone. However, the surrounding islands aren't, in spite of the tsunamis that hit them.

@@jimmyseaver3647 two small (uninhabited thank God) islands were completely eroded away based on some satellite photos. I'd link you a source, but I can't find the tweets again.

The damage of immediate shockwave and tsunami only constitutes towards a very small portion of destructive power from a volcanic eruption What's truly worrisome is the deadly ash fall and wintering effects

Im not sure what you mean by 90% of the volcano being destroyed? The visible cone or caldera is just an artifact of material leaking through the rift in the plates. The Tonga islands make up the edges of the caldera and the rest of this volcano is completely submerged. So is the "volcano" the material left behind by the leaking rift, or is it the leak itself? If it is the leak itself, then the only thing that can "destroy" it is a dramatic change in the techtonic environment that means there is no longer pressure being releived at that point, at which point it is "dead". But even volcanos that have had huge eruptions and lost most of their cones (like Mt Saint Helens) are not at all "destroyed" and should very much be still considered active and potentially dangerous.

@@patreekotime4578 Pretty sure you know he means what we see above the ocean's surface. Lol

...but Godzilla survived. Dun dun dunnnnnnnn.

@@patreekotime4578 You were so close, but to add to your point the islands themselves are simply the tops of these mountains stretching up from the ocean floor. It just depends on where the vent was. If 90% of the volcano was destroyed per the OP's comment, then the tsunami would have equated or exceeded the KT impactor that happened at the end of the cretaceous. So the volcano is still very active, Mt. St. Helens per your observation is still active and in fact erupted several years back (not anywhere near the 1980s eruption the lava dome tends to pop every so often). Mt Fuji is actually still an active volcano as well. What constitutes an extinct volcano is a process geologists aren't 100% sure of though because there are numerous reasons why it might happen.

Why don't you watermark it and post it online somewhere, such as a social media profile?

Post it man!!

Also if this is at best VEI 4 how much of an effect could this cause on climate for the coming months?

@@Girish4944 Climate? Not so much, weather on the other hand, expect a crap summer.

@@dougaltolan3017 right weather. Thanks

Bombs in the ocean. The presented graphics... are graphics.. People looking at the image as tho its real lol... Its a model.

@@keithdon3313 nope the explosion was too big to be a man made explosion, it is real! You can get the images directly from the satellite yourself!

@@keithdon3313 What are you talking about? The "graphics" are 100% real, they're recorded from satellites lol

@@dogwalker666 the satallite images arent real. But its good distraction as sokn as people are waking up to Covid lies.. Same people giving you the story.

@@biggiesmalls7939 good luck with that. No better than PS5 graphics of hollywood movie 10years ago

Yeah, they're both underwater volcanoes that excreted so much lava they built themselves an island. Then ended up in a mighty phreatic explosion. Problem with Krakatau was that information was not as easily disseminated as today, so it might be heard even further but no one paid any attention, just thinking it was thunder from far far away. Need to compare the pressure wave propagation. Krakatau's pressure wave travel all around the world continuously for at least 5 days. And despite not as intense as Tambora, Krakatau's ejecta indeed lowered global temperature by about 0.4°C

I guess that depends a bit on how well known the eruption of the Krakatoa was around the globe. If many people heard it, but no-one reported it because they thought it was something else then you don't have much data to go off.

Nature made all the fancy graphics we needed this time

I thought about this as well. Mount Pinatubo lowered the earth's temperature by half a degree for a year or two. This one might be big enough to have an effect too!

And made for some awesome sunsets here in the southern hemisphere for a couple years.

I'm thinking this is bigger. Edit, early guess was wrong, thanks guys.

Does anyone know how much CO2 is released in a typical large volcanic eruption (large enough to alter climate for say, five years)?

@@JasbirSingh-zj1fg lots and lots, millions of tonnes, but that isn't the big risk, sulfur dioxide which turns into sulfuric acid is the big pollutant, it kills fauna and flora, as well as the ozone layer.

This Tongan volcano even if it was technically smaller than Pinatubo in power, it seems to have blown it's caldera in an instant. Which explains shock wave like Sonic boom. All that land under water in an instant being ejected into upper atmosphere.

Got the source for the calculations? Early reports it was VEI4+, yesterday it was VEI5 but i don't see any official VEI classification yet. Some of the geo forums i'm in are putting it at a VEI6.

But atmosphere is constantly restored by undervent gases.

@@redspotaudio You might want to be taught by books that arent outdated by 2000 years

Ajay kumar I was looking for a comment by a person who’s mind set i know

@@redspotaudio I see, so your way of thinking is just like ISIS? Incredible.

Slow the frames down at 2.07 and slow it as slow as you can you can see something entering the ocean might be a missile. might not be natural you make your own judgement

not accurate the 1912 eruption at novarupta ejected more particulates then pinatubo..

This should have been a mother of all sonic seismic testing opportunities of a lifetime. Is there any reason that the faster part of the main bulge of the shock wave ran north east from mid California towards the Great Lakes? Is that what you were up to Tuk Tuk , watching shock wave desemination patterns and paths through the Earth's mantel? Could be something to analyze and discuss with knowledgeable people.

THIS PIC HAS BEEN TAKEN FROM A PLANE, NOT FORM A "SPACE-SHIP."

@@eloishashalom1458 From* and it's from a Satellite. airplanes don't fly that high up. but good try buddy

@@eloishashalom1458 what kind of drugs are you on?

Look we aint buying the flat earth psyop. Ok now go away

Can you imagine the pressure jumping up and down in central Europe caused by this event made my head attempt to explode in pain?

I could also see the blip on my smart phone historical data, which is logged by my home automation. The top to bottom difference measured by my smart phone was 2.2 hPa (the Netherlands).

Yeah it was strong enough to be registered all around the world

The very icing on the cake is that this data basically proves the Earth is not flat, since there's no way to replicate the data seen on any sort of flat surface. And there's also no way they can claim conspiracy, since it was measured on so many independent devices and documented everywhere.

@@matthewbardeen4821 the fun part is the damn flat earthers are already saying just what you feared. even in this chanels comment section they are spouting their excrement. is proof that the earth is round because the wave traveled all the way around the earth and still those fools claim its not like that. its just another sign of humanity regressing because as a hole humanity has had it to damn easy the last decades.

@@matthewbardeen4821 nah, next you will hear about "big weather" faked all of this because NASA bought them out...

It's reported that a number of Tongans were badly shaken by the whole episode.

Yep thats it

@@kenmacfarlane8744 naughty.. people lost their lives ..

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