The volcanic eruption in the South Pacific Kingdom of Tonga peaked on January 15 with more explosive force than 100 simultaneous Hiroshima bombs, NASA scientists reported on Monday 24 January.
based on the amount of rock that was removed during the blast from the island of Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai where it sits, the apparent height of the eruption cloud and several other factors.
That makes the Tonga eruption potentially hundreds of times more explosive than the atomic bomb that the United States dropped on Hiroshima, Japan in August 1945, which is estimated to have exploded with 15 kilotons of energy.in more than 30 years, since the eruption of Mount Pinatubo in 1991.The Tonga volcano erupted violently on January 15, several weeks after a series of smaller eruptions in late December 2021 shook the uninhabited island of Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai.
Frequent eruptions are to be expected from volcanoes like this one, where liquid water and scorching hot magma often come in contact, producing violent explosions of steam, Garvin said. Such eruptions are known as Surtseyan eruptions.
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