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How big was the Tonga eruption?

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Re: How big was the Tonga eruption?

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These are totally memeable gifs

Reminds me of the “problem solved” pictures

California, Florida, the Koreas, Israel, Somalia?

These are totally intentional examples for the memes aka for the lulz

I’m saving all these before other people notice

Re: How big was the Tonga eruption?

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post #2

The title is ungrammatical and refers to "states" where the article does not.

Also poster apparently means US states, not like physical states of a system.

> Also poster apparently means US states, not like physical states of a system.

I think the article means "state" in the sense of "country," not US State.

Re: How big was the Tonga eruption?

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post #2

The title is ungrammatical and refers to "states" where the article does not.

Also poster apparently means US states, not like physical states of a system.

No, if you check the article, poster means sovereign states, or what in US is called “countries”. There is not a single example of a state in USA.

Re: How big was the Tonga eruption?

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For western US trained geoscientists, the Bishop Tuff [1] (from the ~750,000 years ago eruption of the Long Valley Caldera, near Mammoth Mtn. in California) is a "modern" comparable ashfall deposit.

This was quite a bit larger (edited to add: I meant in areal extent, not necc. volume erupted).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bishop_Tuff

Re: How big was the Tonga eruption?

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post #2

The title is ungrammatical and refers to "states" where the article does not.

Also poster apparently means US states, not like physical states of a system.

I changed “states” to “States”, I thought it was obvious
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