January 15, 2022
Several Earth- observing satellites gathered information throughout and after the powerful blast.
One of the most powerful volcanic eruptions in years has actually wiped out a little, unoccupied South Pacific island called Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’ apai. Damage evaluations are still continuous, however initial reports suggest that neighborhoods in the island country of Tonga have actually taken heavy damage from ashes and a tsunami triggered by the eruption.
The volcano had actually sporadically emerged numerous times given that2009 The newest burst of activity started in late December 2021, with periodic ejections of ash, steam, and tephra. An uncommonly big blast rocked the volcano on January 13, 2022, however it was an even bigger surge on January 15 that produced a climatic shock wave and tsunami that circumnavigated the world.
Several Earth- observing satellites gathered information throughout and after the eruption. Scientists associated with NASA’s Disasters program are now collecting images and information, and they are sharing it with associates worldwide, consisting of catastrophe reaction firms.
The Advanced Baseline Imager on NOAA’s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite 17 (GOES-17) recorded the natural-color images for the animation above in between 5 and 8 p.m. regional time (04: 00 to 07: 00 Universal Time) on January15 ( NASA constructs and releases the GOES series of satellites for NOAA.) The eruption produced what volcanologists call an umbrella cloud, and crescent-shaped bow shock waves rippled through the plume as it broadened up and outside over the South Pacific.
January 16, 2022
The 2nd image, based upon information gathered on January 16 by the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation (CALIPSO) objective, reveals ash and gas from the eruption increasing to an elevation of 31 kilometers (19 miles). CALIPSO is a joint objective of NASA and France’s National Centre for Space Studies (CNES).
The trio of natural-color images listed below programs ash, pumice, and sediment staining the water around the eruption website. The images were obtained by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite.
January 7– 17, 2022
Preliminary images from industrial satellites and European radar imagers recommend that really little of Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’ apai still stands above the water line. The volcanic island initially increased out of the water in December 2014.
NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens and Lauren Dauphin, utilizing CALIPSO information from NASA/CNES, MODIS and VIIRS information from NASA EOSDIS LANCE and GIBS/Worldview and the Suomi National Polar- orbiting Partnership, and GOES images thanks to NOAA and the National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS).
