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Re:Large Eruption Near Tonga, Heard in NZ. Tsunami at Tonga ... by perihelions on Saturday January 15, 2022 @03:16AM (#29944743)
The satellite imagery is incredible -- you can see atmospheric waves traveling hundreds of kilometers:

https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/goes/sector_band.php?sat=G1... (GOES-West)

https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/goes/sector.php?sat=G17&sec...

https://rammb.cira.colostate.edu/ramsdis/online/loop.asp?dat... (Himawari-8)

https://rammb.cira.colostate.edu/ramsdis/online/himawari-8.a...

Edited comment: originally linked to the wrong satellite imagery (from a separate eruption several hours ago). The discussion in this link is still informative, but not current:

https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/news/hunga-tonga-hunga-haapai-er...

Re:Large Eruption Near Tonga, Heard in NZ. Tsunami at Tonga ... by Cyykratahk on Saturday January 15, 2022 @07:59AM (#29945985)
Here's the Himawari-8 satellite viewer, centred on the eruption.

Press the right arrow icon in the bottom right to advance to the next 10min snapshot.

https://himawari.asia/himawari8-image.htm?sI=D531106&sClC=&s...

You can also download high-res images (11000x11000 PNG):

https://sc-nc-web.nict.go.jp/wsdb_osndisk/shareDirDownload/b... (you might have to click this link twice for the search to work)

Re:Large Eruption Near Tonga, Heard in NZ. Tsunami at Tonga ... by samb1729 on Saturday January 15, 2022 @08:25AM (#29946147)
For anyone wanting to see the same shockwave as is linked here in video form, a BBC article[0] has a it embedded. The Himawari viewer works well for stills but makes the effect over time a bit harder to appreciate.

[0]: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-60007119

Re:Large Eruption Near Tonga, Heard in NZ. Tsunami at Tonga ... by curiousgal on Saturday January 15, 2022 @12:01PM (#29947990)
Seriously fuck the BBC and their Cookie Consent prompt, do they really expect me to manually untick every single vendor?
Re:Large Eruption Near Tonga, Heard in NZ. Tsunami at Tonga ... by ceejayoz on Saturday January 15, 2022 @01:02PM (#29948642)
No, they expect you to give up and accept them.

The worst one I ever saw was where above the fold items were unchecked, but the below the fold items were checked where you couldn’t see them.

Re:Large Eruption Near Tonga, Heard in NZ. Tsunami at Tonga ... by thorsten11 on Saturday January 15, 2022 @02:22PM (#29949326)
You could use Firefox and a cookie-handler plug-in.
Re:Large Eruption Near Tonga, Heard in NZ. Tsunami at Tonga ... by throwawayboise on Saturday January 15, 2022 @02:57PM (#29949620)
Yeah I just browse with a profile that deletes all cookies and history when I close the browser. Then just accept or dismiss all those stupid cookie consent popups.
Re:Large Eruption Near Tonga, Heard in NZ. Tsunami at Tonga ... by uKVZe85V on Sunday January 16, 2022 @05:22AM (#29954804)
I've seen many of consent forms mention tracking beyond cookies and cross-devices.

Are you sure that by accepting you aren't just accepting legally to continue to be tracked with all other means?

If true, then deleting cookies only cause them to ask again next time, but you're still fully tracked.

See https://www.kompyte.com/blog/5-ways-to-identify-your-users-w... (just found it) for examples of tracking without cookies.

Re:Large Eruption Near Tonga, Heard in NZ. Tsunami at Tonga ... by cuteboy19 on Saturday January 15, 2022 @03:09PM (#29949748)
They don't have it on mobile yet, though you can use the "I don't care about cookies" UBlock filterlist
Re:Large Eruption Near Tonga, Heard in NZ. Tsunami at Tonga ... by Kelamir on Sunday January 16, 2022 @08:45AM (#29955918)
More like "they had, but decided to remove". Firefox on Android used to support any extensions, but they cut that down. You can still get the functionality in browsers like Icecatmobile, though.
Re:Large Eruption Near Tonga, Heard in NZ. Tsunami at Tonga ... by Tagbert on Sunday January 16, 2022 @10:39PM (#29963090)
If you mean the old XUL extensions with zero security? I think that transition was worth losing some extensions due to the more strict sandboxing.
Re:Large Eruption Near Tonga, Heard in NZ. Tsunami at Tonga ... by robin_reala on Saturday January 15, 2022 @02:58PM (#29949635)
Re:Large Eruption Near Tonga, Heard in NZ. Tsunami at Tonga ... by TedDoesntTalk on Sunday January 16, 2022 @12:51AM (#29953765)
How about just not using their website is it is so annoying? The more audience they lose, the more apt they C we’ll be to change it.
Re:Large Eruption Near Tonga, Heard in NZ. Tsunami at Tonga ... by KennyBlanken on Sunday January 16, 2022 @08:50AM (#29955958)
That man is a moron. A tweet to a large organization's twitter handle is not a formal complaint.

I guess sending in a letter isn't as good for social media engagement, though.

Re:Large Eruption Near Tonga, Heard in NZ. Tsunami at Tonga ... by IanCal on Saturday January 15, 2022 @05:00PM (#29950778)
I'm curious as to what you see (I'm in the UK so there are very strict legal requirements that the BBC don't show ads so my page will be different to yours) for me the cookie prompt is at the top and pushes the content down a little but I can ignore it and see everything. That meets gdpr requirements as I can still do what I want and unless I tick OK nothing should be set.
Re:Large Eruption Near Tonga, Heard in NZ. Tsunami at Tonga ... by zh3 on Saturday January 15, 2022 @03:12PM (#29949775)
That sounds like a different experience to what we get in the UK - one cookie prompt and you're good to go for many months (at least).

Could be the BBC's fault, possibly due to in-country legalese though?

Re:Large Eruption Near Tonga, Heard in NZ. Tsunami at Tonga ... by madacol on Saturday January 15, 2022 @04:19PM (#29950390)
Use incognito, or Firefox + Multi-account Container + Temporary containers
Re:Large Eruption Near Tonga, Heard in NZ. Tsunami at Tonga ... by johnmaguire on Saturday January 15, 2022 @06:11PM (#29951428)
uBlock Origin + EasyList Cookies or Fanboy Annoyances.
Re:Large Eruption Near Tonga, Heard in NZ. Tsunami at Tonga ... by blobbers on Saturday January 15, 2022 @01:23PM (#29948824)
This is FANTASTIC! Thank you so much for sharing these links. Kids loved this, as we had just learned about similar volcanic eruptions through a recent Nat Geo magazine.
Re:Large Eruption Near Tonga, Heard in NZ. Tsunami at Tonga ... by dylan604 on Saturday January 15, 2022 @11:02AM (#29947370)
I think this might be the first satellite imagery I've seen that caught the color change in the clouds at sunset..
Re:Large Eruption Near Tonga, Heard in NZ. Tsunami at Tonga ... by irrational on Saturday January 15, 2022 @01:43PM (#29949016)
So it looks like the eruption happened right at dusk. For some reason that feels to me like that would make it worse for the people.
Re:Large Eruption Near Tonga, Heard in NZ. Tsunami at Tonga ... by zh3 on Saturday January 15, 2022 @03:13PM (#29949790)
Yeah - the timelapse of the terminator showing darkness descending suggests it's was a rough night.
Re:Large Eruption Near Tonga, Heard in NZ. Tsunami at Tonga ... by gokhan on Saturday January 15, 2022 @08:16AM (#29946087)
Himawari-8 footage is excellent. That shockwave is gigantic. Thanks for the link.
Re:Large Eruption Near Tonga, Heard in NZ. Tsunami at Tonga ... by neom on Saturday January 15, 2022 @10:02AM (#29946812)
Really makes you think about how cool satellites have gotten. After some googling, I learned Himawari is a Japanese weather satellite:

https://www.satellitetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/PH...

https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/himawari-8.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himawari_8#/media/File:Himawar...

Re:Large Eruption Near Tonga, Heard in NZ. Tsunami at Tonga ... by awb on Saturday January 15, 2022 @10:26AM (#29947022)
Re:Large Eruption Near Tonga, Heard in NZ. Tsunami at Tonga ... by johnyzee on Saturday January 15, 2022 @10:58AM (#29947325)
That's the best one. Incredible. To imagine that Tonga is practically right at ground zero. Anyone know how this measures in megatonnes?
Re:Large Eruption Near Tonga, Heard in NZ. Tsunami at Tonga ... by awb on Saturday January 15, 2022 @04:49PM (#29950673)
Re:Large Eruption Near Tonga, Heard in NZ. Tsunami at Tonga ... by quakeguy on Saturday January 15, 2022 @12:06PM (#29948036)
100-160 Mt i saw rumored on Twitter.
Re:Large Eruption Near Tonga, Heard in NZ. Tsunami at Tonga ... by AtlasBarfed on Sunday January 16, 2022 @12:31AM (#29953679)
Is my wikipedia-ing correct? Krakatoa was 200 Mt?
Re:Large Eruption Near Tonga, Heard in NZ. Tsunami at Tonga ... by beamatronic on Saturday January 15, 2022 @12:42PM (#29948411)
Are the Tongans okay?
Re:Large Eruption Near Tonga, Heard in NZ. Tsunami at Tonga ... by awb on Saturday January 15, 2022 @12:47PM (#29948466)
No injuries reported, but communication is intermittent.

https://news.yahoo.com/tonga-issues-tsunami-warning-undersea...

> There were no immediate reports of injuries or the extent of the damage because all internet connectivity with Tonga was lost at about 6:40 p.m. local time — about 10 minutes after problems began, said Doug Madory, director of internet analysis for the network intelligence firm Kentik.

> Tonga gets its internet via an undersea cable from Suva, Fiji, which presumably was damaged. The company that manages that connection, Southern Cross Cable Network, could not immediately be reached for comment.

There are social media posts of the tsunami though which I believe are from Tonga. So folks at the shoreline were presumably fine enough to record and post video somehow.

Tsunami: https://twitter.com/dwnews/status/1482331481607311360

Eruption: https://youtu.be/Eu8V_WADjCw

I’d be worried about anyone on an airplane near there, but I guess it’s not a highly trafficked route.

Re:Large Eruption Near Tonga, Heard in NZ. Tsunami at Tonga ... by vba616 on Saturday January 15, 2022 @09:08PM (#29952596)
>I’d be worried about anyone on an airplane near there, but I guess it’s not a highly trafficked route.

I was curious whether Fua'amotu International Airport is a stop on flights going elsewhere but I wasn't able to come up with a good search. It sounds like it could be:

"The air field was constructed by Seabees of the 1st Construction Battalion with assistance and labor of the U. S. Army 147th Infantry Regiment. It was intended as a World War II heavy bomber field, and had three coral-surfaced runways. In the late 1970s, it was expanded to permit jet aircraft to use the runways. Fuaʻamotu is now suitable for up to Boeing 767 size aircraft, but remains closed to larger jets (e.g. Boeing 747s)."

Re:Large Eruption Near Tonga, Heard in NZ. Tsunami at Tonga ... by bobthepanda on Sunday January 16, 2022 @03:51AM (#29954387)
Today's aircraft can easily handle transpacific flights, and Tonga is in the Southern Hemisphere close to the equator so even Southern Hemisphere flights would likely avoid it.

It's basically just Australia and New Zealand to Hawaii and North America, and Pacific Islands east of Tonga. As well as any inter-Oceanic flights that happen to pass it.

Re:Large Eruption Near Tonga, Heard in NZ. Tsunami at Tonga ... by aatharuv on Saturday January 15, 2022 @01:45PM (#29949034)
I wonder how these social media posts were being uploaded due to a loss of internet connectivity. Satellite internet, or has internet been restored already?
Re:Large Eruption Near Tonga, Heard in NZ. Tsunami at Tonga ... by iam-TJ on Saturday January 15, 2022 @06:28PM (#29951547)
Last time the undersea fibre optic cables (international and local) were broken (2019-2020) [0] a Kacific [1] K-band satellite emergency link was installed for and by the Tonga ISP EziNet [2] and others.

(the 2019 break was caused by a Turkish oil tanker prematurely dropping anchor in a restricted zone [3])

"DS Venture Ltd (DSV) was the owner of the Duzgit Venture. On 20 January 2019, as the vessel approached the Port of Nuku'alofa, its starboard anchor and chain were prematurely released from their housing. As the anchor and chain were winched back in, they caught and damaged a cable. The cable was one of two undersea communications cables owned by Tonga Cable Ltd (TCL) connecting Nuku'alofa, Ha'apai, and Vava'u with Fiji. As a result of damage to the cable, Tonga was without cable telecommunications for almost three weeks. "

[0] https://samoanews.com/regional/tonga-cable-break-located-rep...

[1] https://kacific.com/

[2] https://matangitonga.to/2019/01/26/geek-heroes-rescue-tonga-...

[3] https://cmlcmidatabase.org/ezinet-ltd-v-ds-venture-ltd

Re:Large Eruption Near Tonga, Heard in NZ. Tsunami at Tonga ... by awb on Saturday January 15, 2022 @02:31PM (#29949401)
If the undersea cable was damaged I doubt it was repaired that quickly. I’m guessing satellite Internet.
Re:Large Eruption Near Tonga, Heard in NZ. Tsunami at Tonga ... by qwertox on Saturday January 15, 2022 @09:01AM (#29946380)
Thank you for your incredible link collection.

Here is an animated gif in the relevant timeframe, 9 MB in size.

https://cdn.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES17/ABI/SECTOR/tsp/Sandw...

and one hour earlier

https://cdn.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES17/ABI/SECTOR/tsp/Sandw...

Re:Large Eruption Near Tonga, Heard in NZ. Tsunami at Tonga ... by matkoniecz on Saturday January 15, 2022 @11:51AM (#29947897)
404ing for the first link
Re:Large Eruption Near Tonga, Heard in NZ. Tsunami at Tonga ... by qwertox on Saturday January 15, 2022 @01:17PM (#29948757)
Oh no! Both links are a 404 now. Why didn't I save them :(
Re:Large Eruption Near Tonga, Heard in NZ. Tsunami at Tonga ... by perihelions on Saturday January 15, 2022 @03:32PM (#29949954)
Re:Large Eruption Near Tonga, Heard in NZ. Tsunami at Tonga ... by perihelions on Saturday January 15, 2022 @05:43AM (#29945381)
Here's alternate versions with 24-hour long windows (not ideal), because I haven't figured out how to link timestamps in the URL parameters of satellite loops, so they are shifting forwards in time. (I'm sure someone else will figure out a better solution: I've given up).

https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/goes/sector_band.php?sat=G1... (GOES-West)

https://rammb.cira.colostate.edu/ramsdis/online/loop.asp?dat... (Himawari-8)

Re:Large Eruption Near Tonga, Heard in NZ. Tsunami at Tonga ... by Taniwha on Saturday January 15, 2022 @03:23AM (#29944773)
There was one yesterday and a bigger one 3-4 hours ago
Re:Large Eruption Near Tonga, Heard in NZ. Tsunami at Tonga ... by awb on Saturday January 15, 2022 @05:05PM (#29950823)
And potentially more eruptions after the big one:

https://twitter.com/MJVentrice/status/1482437044785889286

Re:Large Eruption Near Tonga, Heard in NZ. Tsunami at Tonga ... by wyclif on Saturday January 15, 2022 @09:00AM (#29946373)
They are evacuating Lord Howe Island.