Posted on 01/16/2022 4:06:19 AM PST by texas booster
Did I forget to mention that if Mount Rainier ever blows out on the northwest side, it will instantly melt trillions of pounds of snow which will flow down a river basin right into downtown Tacoma?
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Oh yeah....WELL aware of that one.
It’ll actually flow down FOUR river basins: the Nisqually, the White, the Carbon and the Puyallup river valleys. Several thousands of people live in those valleys. And, since I drive around with my job in 3 of those, I can tell you that there no possible way the majority of those people can get out of the way in time...unless they had SEVERAL HOURS of warning. If it’s a bolt-out-of-the-blue eruption with no warning, the communities closer to The Mountain have about 20-30 minutes to get to higher ground. The bigger communities closer to Tacoma have 35-45 minutes.
(Actually, the chances that there won’t be any warning at all are small. Rainier has many seismographs on its flanks and scientists now have a better idea what to watch for after Mt. St. Helens blew. It also depends on if people ignore any possible warnings should that occur. People can be REALLY dumb, y’know.)
There are NOT a lot of roads that lead out of those 3 valleys I drive around in (not sure about Nisqually, too far south for me).
As for downtown Tacoma, most of it will be spared, as a good chunk of Tacoma rises rapidly away from the Puyallup tide flats. It WILL, however, pretty much destroy the Port of Tacoma, which is one of the largest shipping container ports in the US.
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This is great! Thank you for posting.
Dibs on the new island.
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Never mind the ping list, who manages the exploding volcanos?
I’m concerned about the air pollution and the effects on climate. Didn’t this volcano listen to Greta?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoMRwyNhqJ4
“Volcanic Eruption May Be Biggest Ever Seen From Space”
Scott Manley gives his usual excellent explanation of events!
The volcano caused an atmospheric disturbance. Pressure dip and wave.
My son in Dallas has a little weather station. It recorded the disturbance about 20 min later.
Halfway around the world!
But just like surfers off the CA coast we can be sure that someone took a short cut …
I think FReeper Kaye Boom is the volcano ping list manager. ;^)
In the last 24 hours we've seen a huge explosive volcanic eruption from the Tongan island of Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai - the blast is so large it's easily visible from multiple satellites in geostationary orbit, tens of thousands of miles up. The blast sent a soundwave around the world which is still being measured and the resulting tsunami caused flooding around the pacific ocean.Volcanic Eruption May Be Biggest Ever Seen From Space | January 15, 2022 | Scott Manley
The eruption is estimated to be a high 5 or a low 6 on the VEI scale according to this article.
https://www.volcanocafe.org/the-vei-5-millennium-eruption-of-hunga-tonga/
KABOOM! See the video of the explosion.
Large volcanic eruption in Tonga, tsunami warning in effect.
https://twitter.com/AuroraIntel/status/1482229145547337728
Can’t be.
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