2022 Hunga-Tonga mega-tsunami simulation shows “lucky escape” for urban centres
Sunday, April 16, 2023 - 16:08. Updated on Sunday, April 16, 2023 - 17:11.
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
A 15-megaton volcanic explosion from Hunga-Tonga Hunga-Ha'apai, one of the largest natural explosions in more than a century, generated a mega-tsunami with waves up to 85 meters (279 feet) high one minute after the explosion of "Blast 5", and hitting Tonga's coastlines, up to 45-meters high (148 feet) at Tofua Island, and waves up to 17 meters (56 feet) on Tongatapu, the country’s most populated island on 15 January 2022. A new study found that the Tonga tsunami was similar in size to the one caused by the eruption of Krakatoa in 1883 and generated enormous waves, but claimed few lives.
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архивированно отсюда: https://matangitonga.to/2023/04/16/2022 … an-centres - однако через пару дней эта страница перестанет быть доступна (поэтому и архивированно). Впрочем , там в статье есть ссылки на оригинал и ВИДЕО СИМУЛЯЦИИ ЦУНАМИ: Download an animation of the tsunami propagation across the Tonga archipelago. Credit: Steven N. Ward - Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California Santa Cruz, U.S.A. https://spaces.hightail.com/receive/HOzAv6bawk