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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 LeoPanthera »

RowanH wrote: post #79

Heard it go bang, 2600km away, echoing through the hills around our place at the top of the South Island of New Zealand. That's pretty staggering to think about it. Then to see other peoples Home Assistants around the world pick up the change in pressure on opposite sides of the planet. Mental, just mental...

My back yard weather station picked up the shockwave here in the bay area: https://twitter.com/DavidCWG/status/1482451910154014720

I had no idea that was even possible. Crazy stuff.

Re: How big was the Tonga eruption?

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Post by jmspring »

depereo wrote: post #107
RowanH wrote: post #79

Heard it go bang, 2600km away, echoing through the hills around our place at the top of the South Island of New Zealand. That's pretty staggering to think about it. Then to see other peoples Home Assistants around the world pick up the change in pressure on opposite sides of the planet. Mental, just mental...

My colleague's backyard weather station picked up the pressure wave in Christchurch several times as it repeatedly circled the globe. Sea levels in the upper south were a little 'odd', trending higher and more variably than usual, even if not by that much, for a week.

Here in California in the Sierra Nevada, a pressure variation was noticeable around 4am pacific.

Re: How big was the Tonga eruption?

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Post by dylanz »

RowanH wrote: post #79

Heard it go bang, 2600km away, echoing through the hills around our place at the top of the South Island of New Zealand. That's pretty staggering to think about it. Then to see other peoples Home Assistants around the world pick up the change in pressure on opposite sides of the planet. Mental, just mental...

Takaka or Motueka? I used to live in that area. Golden Bay has a pretty unique geographical layout!

Re: How big was the Tonga eruption?

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Post by dzmien »

riffic wrote: post #48
pyrophane wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm assuming you meant to write ableist, in which case, how is the above comment ableist?

edited, thank you. To answer your question, adjectives related to intelligence are ableist in origin. I don't think this needs to be explained and it's not my job to educate you or anyone else on this forum.

If you are going to call someone out, why not try to make it educational?

Re: How big was the Tonga eruption?

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Post by divbzero »

RowanH wrote: post #79

Heard it go bang, 2600km away, echoing through the hills around our place at the top of the South Island of New Zealand. That's pretty staggering to think about it. Then to see other peoples Home Assistants around the world pick up the change in pressure on opposite sides of the planet. Mental, just mental...

What did the “bang” sound like? Was it the sharp crack of thunder close by, the slower rumbling of distant thunder, the sound of fireworks exploding, or would some other description fit better?

Re: How big was the Tonga eruption?

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Post by madaxe_again »

LeoPanthera wrote: post #111
RowanH wrote: post #79

Heard it go bang, 2600km away, echoing through the hills around our place at the top of the South Island of New Zealand. That's pretty staggering to think about it. Then to see other peoples Home Assistants around the world pick up the change in pressure on opposite sides of the planet. Mental, just mental...

My back yard weather station picked up the shockwave here in the bay area: https://twitter.com/DavidCWG/status/1482451910154014720 I had no idea that was even possible. Crazy stuff.

Mine picked it up too - in Portugal.

Teeny little dip and crest, and I wasn’t sure until the meteorological station in a city 30km tweeted that they’d seen it too, and the times coincided (well, I was about a minute later) very neatly.

Re: How big was the Tonga eruption?

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Post by vanattab »

busyant wrote: post #105

This is an excellent lesson in how shitty my sense of geographic scale is. I would have guessed that the size of the eruption was on par with the size of a small city.

I mean your not wrong, the article is illustrating the mushroom cloud and ash cloud after 24 hours. So the explosive eruption its self is much smaller.

Re: How big was the Tonga eruption?

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Post by divbzero »

busyant wrote: post #105

This is an excellent lesson in how shitty my sense of geographic scale is. I would have guessed that the size of the eruption was on par with the size of a small city.

The Pacific Ocean is ginormous (I think that’s the technical term?) I often find myself surprised when I spin a globe (physical or virtual) and compare the expanse of the ocean to my neighborhood of the planet. The scale also makes the history of Polynesian seafaring all that more incredible.
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