News Huge Volcanic Eruption in the Ocean in Tonga

[Spounman]

That was crazy. We got some big waves and flooding in Cali from it too.

 

[Orgasmo]

This was a VEI6 on the eruption scale. I can't even imagine a VEI8 event like Yellowstone.

 

[rj144]

This was a VEI6 on the eruption scale. I can't even imagine a VEI8 event like Yellowstone.

Planet might cool the next year like Pinatubo.

 

[Fraz]

Did this happen on our planet?

 

[moreorless87]

This volcano has actually been erupting for awhile so my guess is the mamga chamber under it emptied enough that it collapsed and you got this explosion as with Krakatoa, basically sea water rushes in and makes sudden contact with very hot lava and you get a massive explosion heard thousands of miles away.