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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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Post by TehCorwiz »

mynegation wrote: post #7
VeninVidiaVicii wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

There's one of Florida and one of California.

Re: How big was the Tonga eruption?

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Post by giuliomagnifico »

throwthere wrote: post #6
VeninVidiaVicii wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Okay okay, I changed States in Nations, better now?

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Post by sixstringtheory »

giuliomagnifico wrote: post #5
milliams wrote: post #2

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

Write a better tittle and I’ll change it. By the way for me Spain, Florida or UK are states, how you call them?

Tonga eruption as if it had* happened in various nations

Re: How big was the Tonga eruption?

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Post by giuliomagnifico »

sixstringtheory wrote: post #13
giuliomagnifico wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Write a better tittle and I’ll change it. By the way for me Spain, Florida or UK are states, how you call them?

Tonga eruption as if it had* happened in various nations

Edited, thanks a lot for the correction! English is not my first language!

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Post by riffic »

giuliomagnifico wrote: post #5
milliams wrote: post #2

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

Write a better tittle and I’ll change it. By the way for me Spain, Florida or UK are states, how you call them?

the article does not refer to "Nations" either (the phrase used in the Reuters text is "well-known land masses"). title nitpicking is one of the worst things about HN (and there are many things wrong with this site), imo just use the original title.

Re: How big was the Tonga eruption?

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Post by dylan604 »

This looks like a tedious process that I would have totally done on my own had I thought of it. By that I mean the painstaking process of matting out each frame, then randomly placing it on places of the map, just because I could, just for the lulz. I'm not discounting it as "i could have thought of that", but appreciation for how useful it actually is.

Some people cannot grasp certain things without visuals, and this visual is one of those that definintely makes things clearer.

Re: How big was the Tonga eruption?

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Post by dheera »

fghorow wrote: post #8

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

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Post by riffic »

dheera wrote: post #17
fghorow wrote: post #8

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

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you could make your point without being derisive and ableist, especially considering the people involved have credentials and are trained in their fields.

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Post by NikolaNovak »

giuliomagnifico wrote: post #5
milliams wrote: post #2

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

Write a better tittle and I’ll change it. By the way for me Spain, Florida or UK are states, how you call them?

Interesting; on aside, I would call:

Florida - State

Ontario - Province

Spain & UK - "Country" colloquially; might use the term "Nation" if I needed to be more inclusive/ambiguous

(Understanding that formally, State might in fact be a better term: e.g. it's "Minister of the State" or "Statesmanship" etc; but this is how I'd use them in daily life. ESL, 25 years in Canada FWIW)

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