Scientists told Space.com that information gleaned from the eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano in Tonga earlier this year could help people better prepare for a possible asteroid impact.
The explosion of the volcano in the South Pacific was considered the largest ever recorded by the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO).
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NASA Planetary Defense officer Lindley Johnson told the site that this type of information gathered could teach more about “after effects of a significant asteroid impact” on Earth.
To give you an idea, all 53 stations of the organization around the world recorded the eruption, which was heard even in the United States and spewed ash, steam and gas in a radius of 260 kilometers and more than 19 kilometers into the planet’s atmosphere. The discharge was greater than that recorded by the Chelyabinsk meteor in 2013.
Senior scientist at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, Clark Chapman, believes that since much of the planet is made up of oceans, it is very likely that a meteor hits an ocean rather than some continent.
“We need to learn more about asteroid impact tsunamis because they likely behave very differently than those caused by earthquakes or landslides,” he said.
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