[Rockhounds] Satellite images offer glimpse at Tonga volcano destruction

[Paul]

On Sun, 16 Jan 2022 21:56:50 -0500, Kreigh Tomaszewski wrote
 >
 > Scientists got their first look at Hunga-Tonga Hunga-Ha'apai 
post-eruption
 > on Saturday when the EU's Sentinel-1A satellite flew overhead.
 >
 > This spacecraft is a radar platform and can see through obscuring 
cloud and
 > ash to the surface below.
 >
 > It showed clearly that much of the crater rim that stood above the ocean
 > waters had been destroyed - a testament to the ferocity of the blast
 > that was heard more than 1,500 miles away.
 >
 > https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-60009944
 >
 > Scroll down to almost the bottom of the article for the before and after
 > images.

More images and videos of the eruption and Tsunami can be seen at:
Tsunami Hits Tonga After Underwater Volcano Erupts
New York Times – video
https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/asia/100000008161535/tonga-tsunami-volcano.html

Dramatic footage of tsunami hitting the Pacific island
of Tonga after a giant underwater volcano erupted
Bethany Dawson, Insider,  Jan 15, 2022.
https://www.businessinsider.com/video-tsunami-hits-tonga-after-giant-pacific-ocean-volcano-erupted-2022-1

Tsunami threat over after huge Pacific volcano eruption
BBC News, January 18, 2021
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-60012337

Yours,

Paul H.