Tonga Volcano

[Anonymous]

The satellite video of the underwater volcano blast was mind-blowing. Is this thing going to keep erupting and causing tsunamis?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The satellite video of the underwater volcano blast was mind-blowing. Is this thing going to keep erupting and causing tsunamis?

It will continue to erupt until the magma pressure falls to a level where the eruption ceases. However long that ends of being.

[Anonymous]

There was a large colony of terns, gulls and some albatrosses on the small islands of Hunga-Tonga-Hunga-Ha’apai where the eruption itself occurred. Probably 500,000+ sea birds of various species were likely killed in this eruption, not too mention millions of reef and pelagic fish. It’s an environmental disaster that’s almost not even on a scale to anything ever seen since perhaps Krakatoa in the 1800’s.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There was a large colony of terns, gulls and some albatrosses on the small islands of Hunga-Tonga-Hunga-Ha’apai where the eruption itself occurred. Probably 500,000+ sea birds of various species were likely killed in this eruption, not too mention millions of reef and pelagic fish. It’s an environmental disaster that’s almost not even on a scale to anything ever seen since perhaps Krakatoa in the 1800’s.

I was coming here to ask a similar question. I wanted to ask if the fish could sense something was going to happen and swam away or if there is now a mass casualty of sea life?

[Anonymous]

There is very little news coverage of how bad the country is affected, presumably because underwater communications lines were knocked out. Have any countries been able to deliver humanitarian assistance yet?

[Anonymous]

Honestly I'm surprised the land of Tonga still exists after that. The population wasn't wiped out?

[Anonymous]

Their homes and roads are still visible.

[Anonymous]

Wow, that's a lot of brown. Were the trees ripped away or are they buried under dirt now?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There was a large colony of terns, gulls and some albatrosses on the small islands of Hunga-Tonga-Hunga-Ha’apai where the eruption itself occurred. Probably 500,000+ sea birds of various species were likely killed in this eruption, not too mention millions of reef and pelagic fish. It’s an environmental disaster that’s almost not even on a scale to anything ever seen since perhaps Krakatoa in the 1800’s.

I was coming here to ask a similar question. I wanted to ask if the fish could sense something was going to happen and swam away or if there is now a mass casualty of sea life?

Even if they swam away, some animals and fish have very, very narrow environments in which they can live, and given the damage humans are doing to the planet, there might not have been anywhere else to swim to.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow, that's a lot of brown. Were the trees ripped away or are they buried under dirt now?

I think it's that everything is ash covered. Not necessarily knocked down.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow, that's a lot of brown. Were the trees ripped away or are they buried under dirt now?

I believe everything is buried under ash.

[Anonymous]

Family members heard the booms in Alaska, which absolutely blows my mind.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There was a large colony of terns, gulls and some albatrosses on the small islands of Hunga-Tonga-Hunga-Ha’apai where the eruption itself occurred. Probably 500,000+ sea birds of various species were likely killed in this eruption, not too mention millions of reef and pelagic fish. It’s an environmental disaster that’s almost not even on a scale to anything ever seen since perhaps Krakatoa in the 1800’s.

I was coming here to ask a similar question. I wanted to ask if the fish could sense something was going to happen and swam away or if there is now a mass casualty of sea life?

swim away to where? Most reef fish could never survive in the open ocean

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There was a large colony of terns, gulls and some albatrosses on the small islands of Hunga-Tonga-Hunga-Ha’apai where the eruption itself occurred. Probably 500,000+ sea birds of various species were likely killed in this eruption, not too mention millions of reef and pelagic fish. It’s an environmental disaster that’s almost not even on a scale to anything ever seen since perhaps Krakatoa in the 1800’s.

It's how pacific islands are formed, the short term consequences for local life are bad, but it's been this way for millions of years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There was a large colony of terns, gulls and some albatrosses on the small islands of Hunga-Tonga-Hunga-Ha’apai where the eruption itself occurred. Probably 500,000+ sea birds of various species were likely killed in this eruption, not too mention millions of reef and pelagic fish. It’s an environmental disaster that’s almost not even on a scale to anything ever seen since perhaps Krakatoa in the 1800’s.

It's how pacific islands are formed, the short term consequences for local life are bad, but it's been this way for millions of years.

it’s how Hawaii was formed.