{"id":1749946,"date":"2022-11-23T18:17:49","date_gmt":"2022-11-23T23:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1749946"},"modified":"2022-11-23T18:17:54","modified_gmt":"2022-11-23T23:17:54","slug":"shotgun-blast-directly-into-the-sky-scientists-say-underwater-volcano-eruption-was-the-largest-ever-recorded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/shotgun-blast-directly-into-the-sky-scientists-say-underwater-volcano-eruption-was-the-largest-ever-recorded\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Shotgun Blast Directly Into The Sky\u2019: Scientists Say Underwater Volcano Eruption Was The \u2018Largest Ever Recorded\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fshotgun-blast-directly-into-the-sky-scientists-say-underwater-volcano-eruption-was-the-largest-ever-recorded%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1749946&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>An underwater volcano that erupted earlier this year is believed to be the \u201clargest ever recorded\u201d with modern equipment, researchers <a href=\"https:\/\/niwa.co.nz\/news\/tonga-eruption-confirmed-as-largest-ever-recorded\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">revealed<\/a>\u00a0this week.<\/p>\n<p>On January 15, 2022 the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha\u2019apai volcano erupted in the Tongan archipelago, triggering tsunami waves and sending a sonic boom that could be heard throughout the world. Since then, a team of scientists have been investigating the historic eruption, concluding that it turned out to be one for the record books.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe eruption reached record heights, being the first we\u2019ve ever seen to break through into the mesosphere,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/International\/tongan-volcano-eruption-largest-recorded-zealand-scientists\/story?id=93708595\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> New Zealand National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) marine geologist Kevin Mackay. \u201cIt was like a shotgun blast directly into the sky,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cIt was a shotgun blast directly into the sky\u201d. \ud83d\udca5<\/p>\n<p>NIWA scientists have confirmed January\u2019s eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha\u2019apai volcano was the largest ever recorded with modern technology. \ud83c\udf0b<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfa5 Watch the full video here \u27a1\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XBEIjuWE7C\">https:\/\/t.co\/XBEIjuWE7C<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BMwcp0YP7C\">pic.twitter.com\/BMwcp0YP7C<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NIWA (@niwa_nz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/niwa_nz\/status\/1594483275493359616?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 21, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The eruption in the South Pacific Ocean displaced 10 cubic kilometers of seafloor, which is equal to 2.6 million Olympic sized swimming pools, according to the NIWA. According to their findings, 75% of that material ended up within 20 kilometers of the volcano, meaning much of it remains unaccounted for.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe volume of this \u2018shotgun\u2019 plume is estimated to be 1.9 [cubic kilometers] of material, which has been circulating in our atmosphere for months, causing the stunning sunsets we saw following the eruption,\u201d Mackay said. The group added that the volcano\u2019s caldera, or crater, is now 700 meters deeper than it was prior to the eruption.<\/p>\n<p>NASA Earth Observatory <a href=\"https:\/\/earthobservatory.nasa.gov\/images\/149367\/dramatic-changes-at-hunga-tonga-hunga-haapai\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">says<\/a> that the blast from the volcanic eruption \u201creleased hundreds of times the equivalent mechanical energy\u201d of the atomic bomb dropped over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The powerful blast was <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2022\/05\/12\/asia\/tonga-eruption-biggest-in-more-a-century-scn\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">heard<\/a> all the way in Alaska, 6,000 miles away.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NASAEarth?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NASAEarth<\/a> scientists are tracking the effects of the Jan. 15 volcanic eruption in Tonga and sharing satellite data with disaster response agencies: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LKO6BWlFkq\">https:\/\/t.co\/LKO6BWlFkq<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6KhVMImRh3\">pic.twitter.com\/6KhVMImRh3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NASA (@NASA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NASA\/status\/1483970727913078787?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 20, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pyroclastic flows, which were said to be one of the great unknowns from the eruption, \u201care currents made up of dense lava, volcanic ash, and gases which can reach temperatures of 1,000 [degrees celsius] and speeds of 700km\/hr,\u201d according to NIWA. Researchers collected 150 sediment cores that were sent to the University of Otago in New Zealand and the National Oceanographic Center in the United Kingdom, revealing deposits up to 80 kilometers away from the volcano.<\/p>\n<p>These are the first pyroclastic flows of this magnitude, according to Mackay. \u201cIt\u2019s the interaction with water that made this event so unprecedented. It\u2019s still speculation but the latest science shows that this phenomenon may be more exaggerated under water,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83e\uddf5 Here are some amazing facts about the eruption \u2b07\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udf0b Most of the material was deposited within 20kms of the volcano. But more than three cubic kilometres appears to have been shot up to 58km into the sky \u2013 causing the stunning sunsets we\u2019ve been seeing.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcf8 Pununu Tukuafu <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QoYKhXF22X\">pic.twitter.com\/QoYKhXF22X<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NIWA (@niwa_nz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/niwa_nz\/status\/1594483285035393024?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 21, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The tsunami waves that were created by the blast reached 15 meters high when they hit parts of Tonga, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-australia-60039542\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">devastating<\/a> the small South Pacific kingdom and leaving it covered in volcanic ash. 1,500 people were displaced and four were killed throughout the Tongan islands, according to the United States Geological Survey, who also noted that damage was recorded in Fiji, Hawaii, Chile, New Zealand, Japan, Russia, and California.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile this eruption was large \u2013 one of the biggest since Krakatoa in 1883 \u2013 there have been others of similar magnitude since then that didn\u2019t behave in the same way,\u201d Mackay said, adding that \u201cthe difference here is that it\u2019s an underwater volcano and it\u2019s also part of the reason we got such big tsunami waves.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An underwater volcano that erupted earlier this year is believed to be the \u201clargest ever recorded\u201d with modern equipment, researchers revealed\u00a0this week. On January 15, 2022 the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha\u2019apai volcano erupted in the Tongan archipelago, triggering tsunami waves and sending a sonic boom that could be heard throughout the world. Since then, a team &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1530,"featured_media":1749949,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1749946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1749946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1530"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1749946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1749946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1749949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1749946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1749946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1749946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}