Were nuclear weapons involved with the Tongan volcano eruption?
Tonga Volcano Eruption Produced Mysterious, Puzzling Concentric Ripples in the Atmosphere
Ethan Huff with News Target reports:
Scientists are baffled over a strange series of ripples that were observed in Earth’s atmosphere following the recent eruption of the Tongan volcano.
Satellite imagery shows an unusual pattern of gravity waves that has not been seen in the past with volcanic eruptions. Could it be that some type of weaponry was involved to provoke the recent eruption in Tonga?
“It’s really unique,” commented Lars Hoffman, an atmospheric scientist at the Jülich Supercomputing Centre in Germany. “We have never seen anything like this in the data before.”
The discovery was made in images collected by the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS), which is mounted on NASA’s Aqua satellite. It captured the waves in the hours after the eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha?apai volcano on January 14.
Dozens of concentric circles could be seen, each representing a fast-moving wave in atmospheric gases that stretched for more than 16,000 kilometers. These waves reached from the ocean’s surface all the way up to the ionosphere.
Reseachers also believe that these waves traveled around the globe several times before dissipating.
“This instrument has been operating for something like 20 years now and we have never seen such nice concentric wave patterns,” Hoffman added.
Were nuclear weapons involved with the Tongan volcano eruption?
