Study claims – volcano erupted in the sea of ​​Tonga was the biggest eruption of 140 years

A volcano had erupted earlier this year in Tonga, a country located in the South Pacific Ocean. The volcano erupted under the sea, generating massive pressure waves or shock waves, some of which passed through Earth’s atmosphere. Because of these shock waves, people in the American state of Alaska, 10,000 kilometers away, also reported noise and buoyancy in the water. Now two new studies have shown that this is the biggest explosion in the last 140 years. The event in Tonga has been compared to the Krakatau eruption in Indonesia in 1883. More than 30 thousand people were killed in that horrific incident.

It is said that this explosion happened after several weeks of activities in Seamount. Detectors installed to comply with the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) noticed the signals from this explosion. It is said that the energy that came out of it was equal to the scale of 100 Hiroshima bombs.

When an underwater volcano in Tonga erupted, it released a mass of gas and particles to hit the mesosphere, the third layer of our atmosphere. It was the largest volcanic plume satellite ever recorded.

In their study published in the journal Science, the first group of researchers revealed that the January 15 event generated a large number of atmospheric waves. The pressure that came out of the Tonga volcano was equal to the Krakatoa eruption of 1883. This was more than the 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption. second Study It has been said that this pressure not only created disturbance in our atmosphere, but also shook the ocean.

The noise of an underwater volcano erupting was heard as far as Alaska. The sea storm that erupted from this explosion created flood conditions in the coastal areas of Japan and America. Two people died in Peru. There were also reports of damage from coastal areas of New Zealand and Australia. It is said that after the eruption of the volcano, a plume of ash and smoke was seen up to 22 kilometers. The debris that came out of the volcanic eruption got absorbed in the sea.