The wave blown around the world
In: Science (Washington). American Association for the Advancement of Science: New York, N.Y. ISSN 0036-8075; e-ISSN 1095-9203, more
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On 15 January 2022, unusual waves appeared in Earth’s atmosphere and oceans (1–3). The origin of the waves was clearly the catastrophic volcanic eruption in Tonga, which pummeled the atmosphere with the largest eruptive plume since the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa, Indonesia. On page 95 of this issue, Matoza et al. (4) show that the 2022 Tonga eruption generated waves in the water, air, and even in the ionosphere that wrapped around Earth multiple times. Tsunamis appeared to hop across the land into all of the major ocean basins. And on page 91 of this issue, Kubota et al. (5) explain that the tsunamis arrived much earlier than expected on the basis of conventional tsunami modeling, and the wave trains lasted much longer than for even the largest earthquakes (5). |
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