the plume is and and how high did it rise? what makes it significant is its size and we have been able to witness it first hand with the satellite images. early reports are coming out now from the tonga geological service. we still do not know how much material erupted, which will help us to classify the size, but we know the volcanic plume was about five kilometres wide and as much as 20 kilometres high, which is really significant because that indicates that this eruption rose into the earth s stratosphere, which is at the own upper atmosphere which allows volcanic material to spread out around the globe, creating further reaching impacts. i guess that explains further reaching impacts. i guess that explains the further reaching impacts. i guess that explains the scale further reaching impacts. i guess that explains the scale of - further reaching impacts. i guess that explains the scale of it - that explains the scale of it because we have seen the tsunami waves on tonga, the
early reports are coming out now from the tonga geological service. we still do not know how much material erupted, which will help us to classify the size, but we know the volcanic plume was about five kilometres wide and as much as 20 kilometres high, which is really significant, particularly because that indicates that this eruption rose into the earth s stratosphere, which is the zone of our atmosphere which allows volcanic material to spread out around the globe, creating further reaching impacts. i guess that explains then the scale of it because we ve seen the tsunami waves on tonga, the island closest to this volcano, but we ve also had tsunami alerts and waves across the us west coast, australia, new zealand, as far away asjapan, so what does this say about the sheer strength of this eruption? well, the eruption was very short but it was very explosive. so it tells us that there was enough energy released in this very short lived blast that was able to explode water, push wate