(Washington = Yonhap News) Correspondent Kim Byung-soo = The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) released a video of the eruption of the Tonga Hunga Hapai submarine volcano that occurred in the waters near Tonga, a small island nation in the South Pacific on the 13th.
The video uploaded to NOAA’s website (https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/news/hunga-tonga-hunga-haapai-erupts-again) on the 16th (local time) was ‘GOES West’, an environmental monitoring satellite operated by N0AA. ‘ was taken.
(Washington = Yonhap News) The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) released a satellite video of the eruption of the Tonga submarine volcano through its website. Tonga, a small island nation in the Pacific Ocean, is shown on a map on the screen. 2022.1.16 photo@yna.co.kr
According to local officials in Tonga, NOAA said the eruption had a radius of 260 km and was about seven times more powerful than the eruption that occurred on December 20 last year.
The eruption was also measured to have caused a 30cm tsunami off the coast of Nuku’alofa, the capital of Tonga, NOAA added.
In the satellite imagery released by NOAA, you can clearly see the volcanic ash column and the gravitational waves of several ripples oscillating over the water.
NOAA also released a video captured by an infrared camera that detects ash and sulfur dioxide gas emitted from volcanic eruptions.
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The GOES West satellite, also known as ‘GOES-17’, was launched in March 2018 and went into full operation in February 2019 as a satellite covering the United States, Pacific, Alaska, and Hawaii.
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