Tonga Volcanic Eruption as seen from Tonga 73 Kilometers Away
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- Опубликовано: 21 авг 2024
- Rare Video footage of the massive eruption near Nukualofa.
HTHH on the 15th of Tonga explodes surprising the world with massive shock / pressure waves. These pressure waves are heard and felt by all in Tonga. Caught on Camera are the effects of these waves on the clouds and the subsequent development and fall out in the 1st two hours of the Eruption. Ash darkens the sky, small stones fall with ash upon everything. Tonga is left in darkness and disconnected from the rest of the World.
Wow this is probably the most comprehensive footage of the eruption from the ground on RUclips
This footage is historically significant in a big way.
Thank you. I’ll look forward to seeing what there is and the reports when the internet is restored. I haven’t seen one video on the internet since the Eruption. I’ll have a lot to catch up on. In the meantime I’ll have to be happy with my 1st person narrative 😁
If anyone doing research wants more data points i maybe able to provide more footage With time stamps. In addition to the go pro I had two cameras I tried to always have one going to catch anything significant.
@@MolisiDelmar This is the most footage I’ve seen so far and the most interesting. I just saw this footage today, and found a second one (Marcus) with video of a destroyed home on beach. Did you fill up your bathtub with drinking water in time? My uncle lived in Grand Cayman and they did that for hurricanes. How bad were the earthquakes? Do you know magnitude? How many earthquakes since eruption, or first day estimate? Did you need to shovel ash off roofs? I hope all is well with you, your family and friends.
@@SaoGage frankly i have seen a lot better footage and sound, just from people recording with cell phones.
Never seen any footage to equal this. Your timelapse of the pressure waves coming through affecting the clouds is amazing. And hearing those booms. Seeing all the clouds get sucked in as the column rises and pulls all that air with it. This is unique footage. The power of that eruption was staggering, and yet not even close to the big ones. That's kinda scary. Thank you for getting video and sharing this.
when is timestamp of booms?
@@David-we3sb Cant watch a 6 minute video?
Thank you. Yes im glad it wasn't a bigger volcano.
You actually have barometric data? Wow, you have this invaluable, unique piece of information that I've been trying to find since. I've been looking for barographs of the shockwave that was recorded in Tonga itself, very close to the source.
that is amazing data to have!
Gracias, fue muy increíble. I was trying to screen record my barometer as it was going up and down but unfortunately didn’t capture the parts I wanted to most. A friend close by will hopefully sent me his video of his barometer. It was very uncomfortable and natural seeing the barometer rise and fall and feeling the sudden movements in my ears. Was pretty intense. Usually I use a barometer for tracking how close a cyclone is as opposed to a pressure wave hahah
Gracias, fue muy increíble. I was trying to screen record my barometer as it was going up and down but unfortunately didn’t capture the parts I wanted to most. A friend close by will hopefully sent me his video of his barometer. It was very uncomfortable and natural seeing the barometer rise and fall and feeling the sudden movements in my ears. Was pretty intense. Usually I use a barometer for tracking how close a cyclone is as opposed to a pressure wave hahah
Gracias, fue muy increíble. I was trying to screen record my barometer as it was going up and down but unfortunately didn’t capture the parts I wanted to most. A friend close by will hopefully sent me his video of his barometer. It was very uncomfortable and natural seeing the barometer rise and fall and feeling the sudden movements in my ears. Was pretty intense. Usually I use a barometer for tracking how close a cyclone is as opposed to a pressure wave jajaja
@@MolisiDelmar Thank you for the reply. That data will be of great help to scientists studying this historic event.
The fact that the rocks came down so long after the eruption is crazy. I mean I know particles get blasted really high but the length of time it takes to come back down is wild.
Your calm is admirable. I would have been screaming and hiding under the bed. Thank you for sharing this and I hope all affected by this unimaginably large event are made whole soon.
Thank you for sharing your excellent documenting of this stunning event. Im in central Alberta Canada and I believe I heard the rumble here although, at the time, I didn’t know what it was. To see the pressure wave travel towards the americas in an infrared wavelength from a GOES satellite was/is incredible. Wishing everyone well, my condolences to those who have been negatively affected and again, thank you for the brilliant upload.
Thank you.
The shockwave came through at about 5-7 am our time, I think, so unless you're an early riser, you would've missed it.
@@MolisiDelmar The shockwave was even registered in Europe/ Netherlands. You have awesome footage especially the barometer reacting was crazy. Thank you for sharing. 👋😀🇳🇱
Thanks Molisi for sharing this valuable material. I am a physicist writing a scientific report on the pressure wave. Do you have a record of the value of the pressure as a function of time? Also, could you share the exact local time for the arrival of the first pressure wave? I would be delighted to acknowledge you in the scientific publication. Many thanks in advance and stay safe.
Greetings. I’ve been looking back over all the footage and putting it in order with time stamps and slowing some of the footage down trying to improve some of the details. Our internet is still compromised until maybe the 20th but I’ll get the info. Muchísimas gracias
Thanks @@MolisiDelmar for your reply, I hope for a good recovery of all in need right now over there. I have already made preliminary use of the pressure measurements shown in this video and they fit remarkably with the other results, I hope you are OK with us using these values in a scientific publication (as promised, I will make sure to acknowledge your footage in the paper). I am really looking forward to future footage with time stamps and also the recording the barometer from your friend. Take care.
@@MolisiDelmar Very impressive, thank you for the video! I hope that you are still safe. I am also a scientist, working with precise accelerometer data from satellites. The shockwave was sensed at 500 km altitude, which is record for such events. I would be interested in the pressure time series as well, if possible. I would of course acknowledge you.
Hi Molisi, thanks for sharing your data. You can find my study published in the scientific journal Shock Waves here link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00193-022-01092-4; please check the explicit mentions to your video and a mention in the acknowledgements section. There was also a nice pop-sci article about my study here: phys.org/news/2022-08-tonga-volcano-eruption-energy-powerful.html Thanks again and I hope that the recovery is going well.
Wow amazing stuff! First of all, glad you're okay! Hopefully now that this footage is getting more eyes, it will help answer some questions. It's cool how you're able to notice things like the pressure changing in your ear. Wild stuff, thank you!
Yes thank you I’m okay. Wild stuff alright. The Pressure wasn’t subtle. We were a little on edge for a few days.
The fact you can hear it from 73km away is genuinely beyond insane. The loudest thing I've ever heard is an f1 car and you can probably hear those for about 7km. I don't even want to imagine how loud that eruption was.
I heard it in Cairns, Australia.
Know some people that heard it. Wellington, New Zealand
Louder than anything you could imagine. It'd be quieter if a hundred fireworks went off 5 feet from your ears
The shock was AUDIBLE in Alaska and San Francisco. The raw power to generate a Shockwave like that is mind boggling. On satellite footage you can see the visible Shockwave propagating out for several hundred miles. From a bomb you get that for a second or two at most. This thing was crazy. The Shockwave circled the planet 4 times. And this eruption isn't as big as Krakatoa or Tambora or the supervolcano eruptions that have happened. Yellowstone, or the one I can never remember that formed the caldera that is Rotorua New Zealand.
@@mycroft16Tarawera, near Rotorua. 1886.
This is some of the most amazing footage I've ever seen. Well done remaining calm and explaining what you were experiencing
This is what i spend hours on utube looking for. Amazing. This is the first time video has been captured showing pressure waves effects on low clouds in a volcanic eruption. Well done!! I can play it 10 times over and still love it!!!
Im glad i was able to capture something you like to watch. Its amazing all the different things you can see when you watch it a few times. so much going on.
Watching this, I can't help but think that this is something similar to what villagers in Central Java experienced in 1883 when Krakatoa erupted...
Krakatoa was much worse. It was bigger. And the tsunami was much bigger. For as big as this one was, Krakatoa was immense. And Tambora was bigger still.
That pressure wave at 3:14 is literally the loud bang you heard shortly thereafter. Same exact thing as flash condensation seen in atom bomb test films. Not counting atomic tests, this volcanic eruption-and by extension this video, as it's one of only a few I've seen which illustrate this-is one of only *two* cases I can even think of where a sound wave persists for more than a few miles (45 in this case!) and is still powerful enough to blast high frequencies like a shotgun when it arrives. (The other being the Chelyabinsk meteor.) Given that thunder absolutely cannot do this, it's just an otherworldly phenomenon, completely outside the norm and positively surreal.
Yeah, and a nuclear weapon Shockwave is also extremely short lived compared to a volcano on this scale. The sound was audible, clearly, in Alaska and San Francisco. Amd yeah, Chelyabinsk was another example of ridiculous energies being released in extremely short time spans. For all of our destructive abilities, we are pathetic compared to any average Tuesday for nature. The solar plasma waves that just blasted by Earth dumped the entire planet's 2022 energy consumption into the atmosphere over just Canada every single hour for 7 hours.
Thanks for posting again, yea these pressure waves were loud and clear in New Zealand. cheers, the footage offers a very unique perspective.
Thank you. I’m one day looking forward to the sound of touching down back in New Zealand! It’s been more than two years.
Thank you. I’m one day looking forward to the sound of touching down back in New Zealand! It’s been more than two years.
at 3:28 you can really see that sound (pressure) wave disperse the clouds
Thank you so much for sharing this adventure with us. I was in the Phllipines when the Mount Piñatubo erupted in June 1991. Same kind of ash clouds and ash rain. Extremely interesting when you talk about the pressure variations prior to the next shockwave! Well done!✋👍🇸🇪
I was stationed at Subic Bay Naval Station just before that Volcano erupted. We were ordered to sail away from the Philippines before the eruption.
@@bohemoth1 I think the Subic Bay was still populated by the military during the eruptions. The base was hammered by the monsoon mixed with volcanic ashes, into a muddy slurr. The clouds turned day into night…
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We were ordered to take our ship out of Subic Bay when CINCPAC saw the first signs of a potential eruption. His order was FORTHWITH DEPART THE PHILIPPINES. I remember it because it was the first time I saw the Navy use the word FORTHWITH instead of ASAP.
Pinatubo didn't have shockwaves like this though, right?
@@I.amthatrealJuan Not as far as I know.
Hunga Tonga's eruption marked the first VEI 6 eruption to ever take place in the 21st century with the new record tallest ash plume height of 57 km. The last time we saw an eruption close to this magnitude was Pinatubo in 1991 but even then it was smaller with the highest ash plume reaching 45 km.
This is one for geology's history books boys.
You captured some fascinating footage for the historical record. After getting curious, I looked, and the Tonga eruption was estimated to be between 10 and 18 Megatons. And by comparison the Krakatoa eruption has been estimated to have been approximately 200 Megatons and with a sound level between 200 and 300 decibels. This was an incredible geological event.
And Tambora was even bigger. Krakatoa was a VEI 6. Tambora was a 7. The only eruption that scale since A.D 215 when New Zealand's Lake Taupo erupted as a 7. Tambora ejected so much sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere that the year after was called "the year without a summer." Global temperatures remained 5.4 degrees below average for 3 years after that one. It cause a lack of monsoon that year allowing a mutated strain of cholera the spread. Reached Europe and America in 1831. By the end it killed 10s of millions of people. The drop in temp cose crop failures and famine around the world for 2 years. Typhus and dysentery spread all over Europe due to malnutrition. The amount of dust pumped into the atmosphere caused a global and visible darkening of sunlight. Paintings from these 2 years show significantly darker scenes and much more red in sunset depictions than before or after. And there is a category 8 above even this. Eventually we will have another of those and it's going to mess humanity up deeply.
I heard the shock wave in Queensland Australia about 4 pm, it’s was loud there😳🇦🇺.
Great footage👍
Oh wow!
Best video of the eruption so far . Thank you
Thank you. Location location location aye.
Holy HELL, that footage & audio is MIND-BLOWING. Insane when everything went dark too. Hope you and yours are well. Seeing those clouds sucked in reminds me of tsunami causes water to recede.... totally NUTS! You should preserve the rights to your video!!!
Yes it had a apocalyptic feel about it hahaha. Was really cool to go back over the footage and see the behaviour of the clouds which I didn’t notice in the moment.
Air and water are both fluids and obey the same physics.
As a student of Geology, thank you very much for this on the ground point of view and for sharing what data you could.
Now you know how it was in 1980 in Wa State, with Mt St Helens. We were standing in church right when it boomed, then rattled the rest of the day. Pops had a 6 man timber cutting crew working about 7-8 miles from the mountain on that day. They dropped their still-running chain saws and ran for the crew bus. They JUST managed to outrun the blast cloud,, and burned up the motor in the crew bus in doing so. Changed our lives for a couple decades. About 4" of ash dumped at this location,,and most of it went east. Mt St Helens rumbled back to life in 2006 for a quickie ash plume. Nice that the barometric pressure stuff is on vid now. Always wondered about those precursor pressure waves. Cool to see the clouds freeze, drop, and pull back. Thanks for the vid Molisi. Have a bug-out survival bag handy,,so you can grab it and bolt out the door.
😮 That was a big one. Amazing history, life can change pretty quickly. 4 inches of ash is a lot. Thank you for your comment. Good idea about the bug out bag - essential really.
Woh, this is the most impressive footage I have seen so far. There isn't a lot of footage of the big one
I wonder where the Tonga Geological services was. They were on a boat capturing previous eruptions.
@@MolisiDelmar If they where as close to the eruption as the day before I fear the worst
@Molisi Delmar I think they lost a lot of equipment and data from nearby from early reports
Good video,thanks for posting. I live in central Yukon in Canada and heard this . Happened around 7 AM here and went on for 30 minutes or more. The louder blasts shook house walls and woke up or was heard by people all over the Yukon and Alaska. If we heard it thousands of km away I can only imagine what it was like for you.. Thanks for sharing.
bruh I'm in NZ and the bangs only sounded like thunder apparently in my town and I didn't hear a thing 😂.
@@emirachelnatalie3397 Yeah, I can't believe he could live so close to this major eruption and, while loud, it sounded more like a firework popping. I would have expected a much louder sound and more damage. Thankfully for him and the Tonga islands, though, it didn't!
@@Calamity_Jack yesss would've been so much more traumatizing too if it was louder.
@@Calamity_Jack Look at other videos. It's much louder than you think. People's ears were reportedly ringing in Tonga and videos clearly show the shockwave pushing objects.
Incredible to learn how far away the effects were felt!!
Great vantage point! It's difficult to comprehend the size of that ash column. It fills the entire horizon.
Incredible that it was so loud, so far away.
By far the best video I've seen of this event. I'm sure it was quite unnerving living it in real time. There's no way that we could ever fully grasp what it was like to be there and see your island hit by tsunamis, rain of rock, earthquakes, ash, loss of communication, etc,etc and just the unknown. I hope you are doing well and you all are recovering/rebuilding. I believe you have some valuable data that many scientists would love to have access to.
Thank you, Island life is peaceful....until it isn't hahaha. Islanders are used to hurricanes and such but this has been a new experience for many. For some it really has been hard with these problems compounding with others. Islanders are fairly resilient tho. Foreign aid and Rebuilding has begun.
Thank you for uploading this and telling us what was happening, pretty intense and the sound from 73km away was insane. Did you happen to notice any unusual behaviour from wildlife, birds, pets, etc. prior to the eruption? There are instances of them in other places acting strangely before events like this or earthquakes.
Your welcome. That's true I do hear that. I didn't notice much happening regarding wildlife that day. I was mostly inside. The day before tho there was a prior eruption in which we all could smell sulphur which was a new event. To me tho I was quite alarmed of swirling currents around the coast also the day before. Then it all settled. The air was very still that night and the sunset was amazing probably due to all the ash in the air. The next day a few hours before this eruption the tsunami warning was canceled then boom the Volcano was like gotcha!
73 Kilometers is about 45 miles. Those explosions were intense sounding.
Oh my gosh, this is fantastic! Thank you for uploading! I know so much of the world has been sitting anxiously to see footage like this, including the barometric data. Very well done!
You're so welcome!
you know its a big thing when "the whole building is shaking" 73km away from it. the sound is absolutely crazy aswell
Yes it was a surprise...you wonder who big these things can get. Its good it wasn't any bigger.
Absolutely incredible. I wonder how seasons will be affected in the different hemispheres
Those booms are scary, I've seen other videos of this eruption, but just came across yours today.
Incredible footage too.
Thank you soooo much for posting this. Unbelievable footage man, glad someone got this information for posterity.
Glad you enjoyed it
>The eruption was so strong that it condensed the clouds and blew out a guy's ceiling over 70kms away with just the shockwave pressure alone
I'm sitting here slackjawed in awe. Ha'apai was something entirely new, wasn't it?
I was in Fiji at the time, it was such a strange experience, the explosions and shock waves coming through.. Totally sounded like a war in the distance
Amazing footage, amazing to hear the explosions too, thanks for posting this!
This is such a unique view. Looking through your window at an event like this really allows me to place myself there and try to feel the same way you did. Even better when you noted things like pressure dropping and feeling it in your ears. Stay safe dude.
Agreed. Well said
Thank you. nice you could share the experience.
That timelapse @ 1:55 looks very much like the Ivy Mike mushroom cloud & shockwave permeating the sky, the difference is that there were multiple visible pressure waves from this event.
I’ll check it out. Interesting having multiple pressure waves. I look forward to learning why. There sure must have been a lot of energy and displacement of materials.
I’ll check it out. Interesting having multiple pressure waves. I look forward to learning why. There sure must have been a lot of energy and displacement of materials.
Because it's a medium sized volcanic eruption and mother nature has much more powerful weapons in her arsenal than we do.
Ivy Mike was a drop in the bucket compared to this volcano. And the volcano is a pressure explosion mostly. This one had the added kick of flash steam explosions as it was underwater. A nuke doesn't even really due much physical damage in terms of the ground. A volcano can literally excavate an entire mountain leaving a caldera in a mater of seconds and toss all of that rock 4 miles into the sky with ease.
One of if not the best video ive seen On this so far. Thankyou!
Thank you. The volcano had the decency to place it self in view of my window and erupt as my Timelapse was going.
Thank you. The volcano had the decency to place it self in view of my window and erupt as my Timelapse was going.
Geez that's amazing footage you got right there, I live in California closest thing we got to raining ash. The skies turn blood orange and it rains ash like in silent hill, but if I was as close from those fires as tonga would be I believe the pressure wave would likely kill me I can imagine it would look apocalyptic seeing the tonga explosion from that distance really valuable footage right here.
You’re part of history my friend, one of the most powerful eruptions ever
This is impressive stuff! I live in Florida, and we have hurricanes here, but nothing like this
amazing complete coverage of the experience close to the eruption site. much appreciated!
Came back to add: this is what the internet is for! Sharing experience like this and connecting the world. It makes up for many other less valuable and sometimes downright negative things one encounters. So thankyou. Hopefully Tonga is recovering from the event and its aftermath.
Thank you. Its amazing how the small the world seems theses days. Lets stay positive.
There is so much interesting stuff on this video from a scientific and from a meteorological standpoint, especially the shockwaves on the clouds, and the massive eruption column/pyrocumulonimbus cloud expanding, and growing large enough to create its own weather effects. all of it was quite fascinating
Indeed. I’ll upload extended footage with time stamps and such when our ravaged internet cable to the island is restored.
Indeed. I’ll upload extended footage with time stamps and such when our ravaged internet cable to the island is restored.
@@MolisiDelmarI hope you guys can make a full recovery in time, I was saddened when I heard about how bad the tsunami and eruption was, hoping you all are safe, and here's hoping that they can get the internet cable restored soon.
“What fun is an apocalyptic day without the full moon?”
Excellent comment. You have to maintain a sense of humor in times like this to keep your fears at bay.
This is incredible. I saw this in the galley at work and couldn’t believe it, it’s truly awesome to see it from the ground
In the Midwest US, there was a 3 millibar bump in air pressure as the shock wave past, about 12 hours after the explosion.
Absolutely incredible, glad your safe.
OMG what a brilliant video.. Without a doubt the most detailed boots on the ground footage ive seen.. Thanks for uploading.
Thank you glad you enjoyed it
73 km (45 miles) away and seeing the ash cloud THAT high up in the atmosphere is mind boggling to me
Likely the most impressive footage and its very well documented from this eruption.
Thank you ☺️
That's really interesting that you can feel the pressure change prior to the noise.
Wow, what an experience! Thank you for sharing.
Glad you enjoyed it!
This is brilliant. People want good footage of the explosion "from the ground", but the explosion was just too monumentally large to capture from the ground. The cloud extends so far into the sky that it becomes hardly distinguishable from it. The edge of the ash cloud at 3:41 is just incredible, just a small corner of it looms on the scale of some kind of planetary rings or a near orbiting moon.
Thank you. Yes amazing. I wish had a better vantage point it was just so big.
Excellent work on your documentary of an historical event like this. Hope you're safe down there. Cheers from the US.
Excellent Summary and footage.
So surreal to see this all transpire in real (ish) time. The part that hits me really hard (no pun intended) is when you said it was raining rocks from the sky... That's freakin' crazy......
I live in Brisbane, the drops in air pressure caused by the shockwaves passing caused thunderstorms here.
This is the best presentation documented of a phenomenal event for which many of us as humans were curious and provoked by! A fan and an admirer from Pakistan!
I just can't get how from space the eruption cloud is at least 1000km wide but on the ground it's like.... nothing?? Blue skies 70km away????
Absolutely amazing! Thanks for sharing all of this.
your welcome.
One of the most poignant and insightful videos Ive ever seen on this platform. Fantastic job at documenting this. I only hope that in the same position I would have been able to produce what you’ve produced here.
That's very kind of you to say. Thank you.
I just read an article reporting about 300,000 lightning strikes during the eruption which got me started on watching videos like yours. I watched another video animating the destruction of underwater communications cables near the base of the volcano due to mud/rock slides rolling down the sides of the caldera. The atmospheric pressure gauge fluctuations preceding and predictive of an audible explosion was fascinating. In the meantime, the ash all over your vehicles and property was a holy mess. How do you like living in Tonga notwithstanding this event?
Glad you shared this. Incredible event.
Wonderful video, informative, objective, and utterly surreal to an American! Thank you for sharing
Incredible documentation of this event, thank you for sharing.
Thank you
Astonishing. Thank you for your composed commentary.
I was waiting for the raw eyewitness video. Media video has too much yapping by the talking heads and edited video, only showing what they think we want to see. They also have edited sound, I guess to make it sound more exiting.
Good job not being a "professional".
When the internet is back online proper I might upload more footage uncut and with time stamps. Still mostly me yapping tho 🤪.
@@MolisiDelmar True, but your yapping on this video was somehow more relevant than preening newscaster trying to get on a bigger network. I don't need them talking over the sounds telling me that it is dramatic.
Also, I have noticed that when the video I see has gone through some sort of production, like an explosion, the sound of the explosion happens at the same time as I see it. When I see the raw footage I see explosion and then the sound moments later, which is more realistic.
I've washed the screen on my laptop twice and I still see that large black speck hovering in the sky before and at the time of eruption. Is that a fly or bee outside your window? I see the hawk take off at the 2 minute.
Sorry About that. I’ve washed my windows now so whatever it was is gone.
@@MolisiDelmar lol NO WORRIES! I was thinking next I may use some eyedrops to see if that cleared up the vision.
I’m a birder, what birds were up in large flock? I have no sense of shame when it comes to birds. I can’t imagine how uncomfortable they were. Are any pets still suffering from eruption?
Amazing front row seat! Glad you’re alright mate! Cheers!
Hope you are ok still
Yes doing okay thank you. Much fitter now after so much clean up.
a loud boom from 70km range, and a shock wave in that distance.. imagine you are near that place, you'll probably loss consciousness.
This is one of the most fascinating videos I've ever watched.
Amazing footage! Thanks for sharing your view.
Thanks for documenting.. Intense. Must have been very scary
It was a bit. Your welcome
Great footage @Molisi Delmar. I'm wondering when you think the eruption started on 15 January? The data I've seen suggests around 5:02 pm, but increasing around 5:08 pm and then the main explosions and earthquakes between about 5:15 and 5:20 pm. Since you are 73 km away, the pressure changes and sound waves should reach you about 4 minutes later. Maybe a bit faster for shockwaves. So I would have expected the biggest blasts you heard to be around 5:18-5:19 locally. But it seems from your other footage, it may have been closer to 5:21-5:22, which is somewhat baffling.
Best footage seen so far on YT
Thanks for sharing, this is fantastic stuff!
The man is back! Glad youre ok!?
Yes I’m okay thank you. I was able to upload the lo res video from the main internet provider in town. Other than that internet is very limited. I’m hoping they will fix fibre cable soon and all upload some more footage of the day after and clean up. Unfortunately the internet cable isn’t were it used to be but I’m sure they fix it soon. It’s a bit hard for the country to be on lockdown for two weeks (Covid Is now here) and have no internet.
Yes I’m okay thank you. I was able to upload the lo res video from the main internet provider in town. Other than that internet is very limited. I’m hoping they will fix fibre cable soon and all upload some more footage of the day after and clean up. Unfortunately the internet cable isn’t were it used to be but I’m sure they fix it soon. It’s a bit hard for the country to be on lockdown for two weeks (Covid Is now here) and have no internet.
There is a volcanic eruption that forms a kimberlite pike, it also spreads out alluvial diamond deposits, It forms when magma ascends supersonically. i think you may just have had such a eruption.
Wow that’s fascinating. Some study of the composition of the ash seemed to indicate that it came up fast from somewhere around 7 ks down. Some have said that the earthquakes following the Erruption was perhaps magma refilling the empty Magna chambers. Guess will have to be careful mining for diamonds 🤔
That sound of ash falling reminded me of Mt. St.Helens in 1980. It was not a sound I enjoyed hearing again. So glad it wasn’t worse for you all. Hopefully, you’ll see the massive growth of fruits and vegetables in your next growing seasons… it was a wild experience seeing what a great fertilizer ash is.
wow- yes sounds bring back the memories don't they. St Helens was huge! We were just remarking today how some of the hibiscus flowers are flourishing. Out of the ashes...as they say.
Thank you for recording this amazing but scary footage.
Looking at this one year later. Impressive stuff - specifically those clouds being moved back and forth - never seen something like that before.... How are things now?
Many many thanks for this report of the erruption - awesome
Thank you so much for this video. Your commentary, the footage, the info. Thank you!
In the first few days directly after the explosion I tried finding this exact video, I just KNEW somebody would be within 100 km with a cam aimed at it, but RUclips just pushes small content creators away and forced everybody to watch news-channels...
Disgusting. Only now, almost a month later, can I see random peoples uploads which are even better quality and posted earlier. Way to go RUclips. Way.To.Go.
I have never before heard of anyone being able to feel the pressure drop before the arrival of a shockwave. I wonder if that effect is related to how the water recedes from shore before the arrival of a tsunami, which is a shockwave in water.
Very nicely done!! I appreciate you calmly explaining things such as the pressure wave before the sound, etc. Good job!
What an experience! I'm glad you are okay.
This is seriously impressive footage!
Wow, the pressure wave on the clouds, wow
Continued love and prayers from the States my friend. 🙏
Just found myself watching this again! Still mind-blowing! Hope you all have recovered without any long term issues. 🌋💥 the booms freak me out
I don't wanna sound crass by mentioning this but that place looks absolutely stunning! Paradise.
Except for the big explosions of course
Tonga is in many ways a paradise. Especially the quieter outer islands. The verdant green tropical colouring is always amazing. Even living without internet for a while was kinda nice.
WOW MAN... nice fottage, thanks and i'm happy which had no damage, and above all that he was not hurt. 😮
ahh indeed. That reminds me I was looking at the Local weather forecast the other day and the two warning advisories where. "Drought Warning" and "Flood Warning" both at the same time!
Is it wrong that I know it's extremely dangerous but I would love to experience a natural phenomenon like this one
Sometimes we are attracted to the dangerous. Better tho to see the calamity and conceal oneself :) With so many disasters happening around the world you might get your chance tho 😉
I'm in awe watching this. Wow...speechless.
Awesome video! I never knew that about the pressure drops that happens before a big shock wave hits. Really cool!
Very good video. It's such a shame that this eruption was not captured live from the beginning. It must have been an incredibly huge explosion.