(ANSA) – ROME, MAY 15 – The eruption of the Tonga volcano that took place on January 15 has been defined as the largest explosion ever recorded in the atmosphere by modern instruments.
According to the assessment in a couple of academic articles published in the journal Science that examined all the data, the eruption on the small island in the South Pacific was far more powerful than any other volcanic event of the twentieth century, or even larger. of any atomic bomb tests conducted after World War II.
It is probable that only the eruption of Krakatoa, which occurred in Indonesia in 1883 with more than 30,000 victims, rivaled that of Tonga, which fortunately caused very few victims, albeit enormous tsunamis.
“Tonga was a truly global event, just like Krakatoa was, geophysical observation systems recorded something that was truly unprecedented in modern data,” Robin Matoza, of the University of California, Santa Barbara, told BBC. (HANDLE).
Source: Ansa
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