Pressure spikes were reported by weather stations all around the world, including in China, Australia, France, the United Kingdom, Germany, and the United States. Watch as the Tonga volcano unleashed once-in-a-century planetary shockwave.
A visually stunning depiction of how an underwater volcano adjacent o tthe Pacific island country of Tonga burst in January, unleashing a once-in-a-generation planet wide shockwave.
Ángel Amores, a physical oceanographer at the Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies in Majorca, Spain, created the shockwave simulation, which was published in the New York Times.
Amores first noticed the shockwave after seeing the wave's radar signature while analyzing data from local weather stations. When the shockwave hit, he claimed, dramatic pressure shifts were seen at meteorological stations all over the world.
"Then I was waiting and I said, OK, it should take like 36 hours to come back ... And then it passed again. After another 36 hou...
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