Hunga Tonga Eruption and Tsunami Footage

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[malaise]

1. K & R

for visibility

[malaise]

2. K & R

for visibility

[dalton99a]

3. Kick

[hunter]

4. Who among us hasn't waited on the beach for a tsunami holding a cell phone on a selfie stick?

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[csziggy]

7. That section of the video is not from the tsunami

I watched that video yesterday and it was from a tidal bore that is well known as "The Bono." The video of the woman and the men with the selfie sticks I saw was all in a language I don't recognize but she kept saying "bono bono." I tried to find it but found many other videos of a tidal bore which seems to be in the same area.

Ah - seems to be in Indonesia:

[irisblue]

11. No one who recalls the 2004 Christmas Earthquake in the Indian Ocean

[MoonRiver]

5. Very scary looking!

[Buns_of_Fire]

6. I liked the guy at 1:18 doing his best King Canute impression. nt

[2naSalit]

8. K&R

[MineralMan]

9. Fake Video.

Put up for clicks. That is not the volcano explosion and the "tsunami" is not the tsunami from it. It's all assembled from existing footage of other things.

Videos with a computer voice narration like that are almost always outright fakes.

[hunter]

10. The internet and television are full of it.

"Besides, as the vilest Writer has his Readers, so the greatest Liar has his Believers; and it often happens, that if a Lie be believ'd only for an Hour, it has done its Work, and there is no farther occasion for it. Falsehood flies, and the Truth comes limping after it; so that when Men come to be undeceiv'd, it is too late; the Jest is over, and the Tale has had its Effect…"

--Jonathan Swift

I suppose the effect here is advertising revenue for the creators of these videos, but there are those who seek longer term profits, both monetary and political, in the general confusion.

[MineralMan]

12. Yeah. I saw a report this morning on MSNBC about it.

They said no tsunamis expected in California. So, never mind.

It's hard, though, when people jump on stories with whatever shows up and don't check the sources. Not everything on YouTube is reliable.

[paleotn]

13. Under sea eruption. Building a new island.

Tonga and the rest are part of a volcanic arc associated the subduction of the Pacific Plate under the Australian Plate. Very much volcanically active. Nearby island of Tofua contains a beautiful, water filled caldera. Dangerous but fascinating stuff.



https://volcano.si.edu/volcano.cfm?vn=243060

[yellowdogintexas]

14. one of the YouTube channels we used to follow the Iceland event

had a video up this week showing there are currently 49 active volcanoes around the world. These are volcanoes which are actually erupting

There are lots of others that are considered active because the potential is there for an immenent eruption.

Some of them of course really never stop; they run all the time like a broken pipe.

We became obsessed with Iceland and were sad when it shut itself down

[orangecrush]

15. KICK...