
An undersea volcano erupted in spectacular fashion near the Pacific nation of Tonga on Saturday, sending tsunami waves crashing across the shore and people rushing to higher ground. It has also prompted a tsunami advisory for British Columbia's coast.
Quite the series of views from satellites.
BLAMMO!
"Tsar Bomba was a massive explosion? Tsar Bomba, you say? Hah! I just f****d him and made him thank me for it" - Hunga Tonga
What's left...
There is still speculation that more eruptions might be coming in the future. Hopefully once communications are restored with Tonga we don't hear of any loss of life.
"We come up with a number that's around 10 megatons of TNT equivalent," James Garvin, the chief scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, told NPR.
That means the explosive force was more than 500 times as powerful as the nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, at the end of World War II.
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