Tonga Volcano

[Wandering sandy]

I wonder how the animals are doing on Tonga if they are outside along with a covering of ash ?, I believe they get some/ all their water from collecting it from roofing, can't see that working if there's ash on everything, they're not mentioning it on the news.

 

[Global ovine]

I wonder how the animals are doing on Tonga if they are outside along with a covering of ash ?, I believe they get some/ all their water from collecting it from roofing, can't see that working if there's ash on everything, they're not mentioning it on the news.

It dominates the news in NZ.
Both NZ and Oz are rushing water, food and desalinisation plants via their navies and air force to their islands. Big aid schemes currently being put together. More Tongans live in NZ and Oz than in Tonga, so big connections exist.
NZ horticulture and food processing heavily relies on temporary work visas from Tongan workers.

 

[Wandering sandy]

I know nothing about the area but I'd have thought there will be cows/ goats or pigs ect for milk and perhaps eating, but if they are graizing or foraging that'll be off the menu, not a good position for the locals if they don't have feed put aside for them.

 

[Yale]

Must be hell on earth close by.

Just the satellite image of the shock wave was scary.

 

[wrenbird]

Just imagine one of that magnitude happening in Iceland ? There was one in Anglo-Saxon times that caused what was known as the ten year winter and famine. It would make the one that stopped air travel a few years back look very tame. There was a volcano erupted in Iceland a couple of years ago that had been dormant for 800 years, so anything is possible.

 

[jendan]

Just imagine one of that magnitude happening in Iceland ? There was one in Anglo-Saxon times that caused what was known as the ten year winter and famine. It would make the one that stopped air travel a few years back look very tame. There was a volcano erupted in Iceland a couple of years ago that had been dormant for 800 years, so anything is possible.

Guess if there were any more really big ones on the Reykjanes peninsular,there could be a fairly large bow wave heading down the Irish and North Seas.

 

[jendan]

Just imagine one of that magnitude happening in Iceland ? There was one in Anglo-Saxon times that caused what was known as the ten year winter and famine. It would make the one that stopped air travel a few years back look very tame. There was a volcano erupted in Iceland a couple of years ago that had been dormant for 800 years, so anything is possible.

536 AD apparently. And for the next 10 years crop failure and mass starvation on the planet.

 

[Anymulewilldo]

Makes all these green rules and regs a bigger load of balls than ever! One volcano goes boom and pumps years worth of gases and crap into the atmosphere in one go!

 

[C.J]

""A mid VEI 5 would make Hunga Tonga’s explosion one of the largest since Mount Tambora’s VEI 6 back in 1815, which resulted in ‘The Year Without A Summer’ during the Dalton Minimum (1790-1830). It would also rank it just behind Pinatubo’s large VEI 5 blast of 1991, which is thought to have cooled the planet by approx. 0.5 to 0.6C.""

 

[Fish]

The one to watch out for in our neck of the woods is Katla, has not erupted for quite a long time, but has shown signs of waking up over the last 10 years or so.

 

[jendan]

The one to watch out for in our neck of the woods is Katla, has not erupted for quite a long time, but has shown signs of waking up over the last 10 years or so.

Just looked that up.It seems due an eruption any time.

 

[primmiemoo]

Some before and after pictures in this report. Terrible ~

Tonga tsunami: Before and after eruption

Satellite and aerial images show impact of eruption of underwater volcano near Tonga island chain.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[serf]

Didn't know this thread was going , there's a documentary on itv now , 9pm and there was a piece on the volcano spewing 24/7, good prog , first thought , wtf are we pissing about with this green bollox when you see that thing chucking gas out round the clock