By The eruption of the Hunga-Hunga Ha’a AiApi horny which was intense on January 15, 2022, broke all records for direct injection of water vapor by volcanoes or in the “Satellite Era”. It also sends a very large volume of ash into the stratosphere. According to a study published in geophysical letters, a strong explosion sprayed water vapor to a height of 53 km. “The Tonga eruption may be the first volcanic eruption observed to have an impact on the climate not through surface cooling caused by volcanic sulfate aerosols, but rather through surface heating caused by excess water vapor,” said the study.
How big is the explosion?
In accordance with living science, volcanoes horny horny horny-hunga ha’ai erupted with the equivalent power of 100 Hiroshima bombs, making it the most powerful explosion that occurred on earth in more than 30 years.
The explosion shook the whole world, making the atmosphere “ring like a bell” and cause a tsunami to pound the adjacent coastline. More than 590,000 lightning attacks occurred for three days due to the eruption. Ash and dust clouds are higher to the atmosphere than the previous eruption in history.
Large explosions release some toxic gas and a lot of water into the atmosphere, both of which are now damaging our planet’s stratosphere.
How much water is vomited by volcanoes?
According to specialists from, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), University of Edinburgh, and Northwest Research Associates, the eruption injects the amount of water that is unmatched to fill 58,000 Olympic size swimming pools.
The standard Olympic swimming pool is 50 meters long, 25 meters wide, and a depth of 3 meters.
What damage can come from water in the atmosphere?
Large volume SO2 is usually released into the atmosphere during the volcanic eruption, which cools the world. Strangely, Tonga did not emit a lot of HCl or SO2.
“This eruption can have an impact on the climate not through surface cooling due to aerosol sulfate, but rather through surface heating due to coercion of radiation from excess H2O stratosphere,” the study said.
This means that researchers warn that extra water might emit heat, warming the atmosphere that is similar to how the greenhouse gas does it. The water heating effect is likely to last longer than the cooling effect produced by the gas because it is anticipated to last longer than other volcanic gas such as sulfur dioxide, which usually falls from the atmosphere within two to three years.
According to geologists, this shows that the Tonga explosion might be the first eruption that is known to have the effect of warming up the world rather than the cooling effect.
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