BREAKING NEWS: Volcanic eruption in Tonga - pictures
Aviation sources reporting that an ash plume is affecting the airspace in the South Pacific following an eruption (in progress) that began this morning. Scienceblogs reporting pictures available now on Keizo blog:I am at tongatapu airport…. just flew in from vava’u, and pilots pointed this out. Apparently it just popped up today! Near Hunga Tonga… you can see it in the photo. approx coordinates S 20º 27′ 73″ W 175º 25′ 61″ given to me by the pilots. These are probably the first photos of it. The pilots said the earlier pilots said nothing, and these guys just saw it for the first time this flight.
Spectacular stuff.
Details of the location etc.
posted by Tim Selwyn @ 2:29 pm
7 comments
7 Comments:
Look at all that Global Warming it's causing Tim, from the carbon it's releasing. We should be acting now before it's too late, quick pass me a carbon credit.
Tim,
Good media. Very interesting and spectacular! Mother Nature's force eh....
Anon 4:05 made me lol.
Fact: Volcanoes emit far, far more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than the amount caused by humans.
blimey!
this hasnt been onthe news yet. good reporting.
great pics!!
it will be interesting to see if there is a link between this volcanoe and the one that went off just of the NZ coast the other day...
NS
theory only - with the volcanic lineage sth -nthwest of the Tonga Groups and the Tonga Trench sth - ntheast of the group. Is Tonga sitting on Fragment Land? Tectonic movements Asia Aust Plate (over) and the Pacific Plate (below)Tonga on cutting edge may emerge(elevate from the ocean floor) to sequence of earthquakes and tsunami prone region? or not?
and we didn't even get a tsumani. damn!
ns
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