Did you hear tonga volcano explosion last night in your country and where?
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it depends on the topography between the source of the sound and your house. Most places that heard it did not have any land masses in between. I.e. over water only. Land deadens sound much quicker, hills, trees etc. Did not hear anything here and neither did anyone I know - Adelaide, Australia. Yet it was heard in Alaska.
Too early to speculate on this but rewind 30 years, 1991 pinatubo erupted and here in japan the government decided to buy rice from Thailand. Everyone was using rice cookers already back in 1993 when this happened and because that type of rice requires different water amount and time(which nobody here knew or was willing to experiment too much around) there was a lot of wasted rice. In the end there was no real need to buy it at the time, everyone did survive and domestically grown rice was in enough supply, so probably no need to think about it now either.
Generally speaking, as we don't know how big this eruption was we can't tell anything yet but chances are this may result in damage to crops, particularly in asian region where the wind is blowing this ash cloud right now. The cloud doesn't really look that bad to me judging from himawari-8 daily images. I mean, not bad enough to make the world cooler this year. But more dust around the globe for sure.
Generally speaking, as we don't know how big this eruption was we can't tell anything yet but chances are this may result in damage to crops, particularly in asian region where the wind is blowing this ash cloud right now. The cloud doesn't really look that bad to me judging from himawari-8 daily images. I mean, not bad enough to make the world cooler this year. But more dust around the globe for sure.
Noting the satellite imagery, some of it came from GOES-17. Happy to have been a part of the team that build the ground station network infrastructure upon which that video/image stream transited. 
NASA estimates explosion power of 10Mt TNT equivalent. So not quite Krakatoa territory which is estimated to have been 200 Mt. Nice bang still.
Irritatingly, we're as helpless as the dinosaurs killed by the Chicxulub impactor were against planet-wide disruptions. Money needs to be spent, wisely, to give us a fighting chance.
Irritatingly, we're as helpless as the dinosaurs killed by the Chicxulub impactor were against planet-wide disruptions. Money needs to be spent, wisely, to give us a fighting chance.
wow. nice to have you onboard sir.Noting the satellite imagery, some of it came from GOES-17. Happy to have been a part of the team that build the ground station network infrastructure upon which that video/image stream transited.