The Size of the Spread of the Tonga Explosion Announced

We mentioned that many living things lost their lives due to the oil spill that occurred as a result of the explosion of the Hunga Tonga volcano in Tonga. After the explosion, a 90-day emergency was declared in Peru and it was said that the oil spill could adversely affect the health of the public.

thrown into the city of Hiroshima by the eruption of Hunga Tonga volcano 600 times more powerful than a nuclear bomb that and approximately Equivalent to 10 megatons of TNT explosive was declared. NASA shared modern satellite images of this explosion on January 15th. Scientists say the explosion caused the largest ash cloud ever recorded.

The height of the ash plume extended into the mesosphere, where only a few rovers could reach it.

In these images shared by NASA, you can see how the ash cloud spread after the explosion.

NASA scientists, Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’pai underwater volcano about the ash cloud formed by the eruption of 58 kilometers up and this has been recorded so far. two and a half times higher than any storm declared that. The largest ash cloud ever observed before the Tonga eruption was the 1991 Mount Pinatubo eruption, which ejected ash up to 35 kilometers into the atmosphere over the Philippines skies. The ash cloud caused by the Tonga explosion is the ash cloud left behind by this explosion. one and a half larger.

The ash cloud from the Tonga eruption spreads to cover an area of ​​157 thousand square kilometers, which is the USA’s It covers an area larger than the state of Georgia. means. While passenger planes can fly 9-12 kilometers in the stratosphere, the ash cloud is only accessible to a few sounding rockets and high-altitude balloons. up to the mesosphere.

Explosion, While it affects more than 100 thousand people a large number of sea creatures ended their lives. Rescue efforts for the tsunami caused by the explosion continue. United Nations officials to rebuild Tonga 90 billion dollars says they need it, but more may be needed.