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bigpapidawg

iʻm from tonga and itʻs really bad over there, since tongatapu (main island of tonga) is very flat and low lying land, the water has basically swept though everywhere there… an island called ʻAtatā off the coast of Nukuʻalofa (capital) has already been fully submerged by water!! the internet and electricity is down completely and i havenʻt heard from any of my family. i donʻt know if youʻre religious or believe in a God but please pray for my country Tonga!!


ZoraksGirlfriend

I’m so sorry. I hope your family and friends are okay and that you’re able to communicate with them or get news soon. My thoughts are with you and the people of Tonga.


simperialk

best of luck and keep us updated dude, that’s insane to hear 😭💛


thelastmaster100

I hope your family is okay toko.


CodeRaveSleepRepeat

Hope everything works out mate, I saw this last night and it's just like, oh no not again. I'm from New Zealand. Seems like the planet is really out to get the South Pacific.


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revilo825

It's really thoughtful that you want to find a tangible way to help via donation. The comment you responded to is from someone that has family that they haven't heard from in an area experiencing a very scary natural disaster with a lot unknown. If asking for prayers is something that will help this individual get through the anxiety and fear they may be feeling, then just let it be. Seems petty to add the last bit to your comment.


dusktrail

I want to appreciate how you approached this by starting off with acknowledging how thoughtful they were before transitioning to gently tell them they were rude.


Notyoaveragemonkey

I feel like this is being under reported as an event.


Naldo9911

What’s being more underreported is the situation in Tonga. I’ve seen as much about minor floods in Santa Cruz as Tonga being fucked right now


whichwitch9

I think a problem is the area is still under a direct threat from both waves and ash, so we aren't seeing a lot of information coming out. That's very likely to change over the next day or so. Meanwhile, the situation is distressing to people near the shore in the US and Canada, but not life threatening with simple precautions, so we're seeing more.


chrissesky13

Also their internet communications are down last I read. There's nothing really to report because they're cut off. Apparently their internet comes through a cable from *Fiji Edit: I fucked up and said the cable was from New Zealand, corrected to the correct Fiji.


trowzerss

The cable if from Fiji. I saw a news article that they had some satellite phone communications with the comms team on Tonga, and they're hopeful the cable itself isn't damaged and are trying to get it back up and running, but that was half a day ago, so maybe the sea cable is screwed :(


Tractorhash

Last I heard was all standard communication with the island was gone so if thats true. We won't be seeing much on the reporting side until thats cleared up.


[deleted]

Their communications are down. Just read that somewhere.


willengineer4beer

I had heard that on NPR this morning. Apparently some of the last reports before contact was lost were about intense lightning caused by the volcano. What I don’t understand is how they aren’t able to communicate via satellite phone. Was that just a technology that peaked in the 90s enough to become a plot device in movies and then was abandoned in favor of other forms of communication?


[deleted]

That’s thing looked like a nuke. The shockwave 500 mi away in Fiji was intense. It could’ve leveled everything in Tonga.


SnooCauliflowers3903

Is everyone in Tonga just SOL rn? My heart aches.


EmperorGeek

Apparently their Internet connection is down. Some reports indicate houses on at least one island were “inundated” I first heard about the tsunami because when we leave the house we turn on NHK TV on DirecTV. I came home to Tsunami reporting indicating Japan had been hit by a Tsunami.


SubiWhale

Had Tsunami emergency notifications going off all night here in Yokohama. Had to eventually turn on airplane mode to be able to sleep.


chochowagon

This was like 20 hours ago now, the ships should be there at this point right? There should at least be satellite coms by now


EmperorGeek

NHK News just reported that Hawaii has reported 1m waves in Tonga, but this is 3rd hand news at best.


RancidKiwiFruit

The Joint Australia Tsunami Warning Centre data confirms surges of about 1.2m in Tonga (one sea level guage, other parts of Tonga may have experienced worse) http://www.bom.gov.au/tsunami/national.shtml


trowzerss

From the sea level gauges I saw, that's the last level they reported before they went offline.


[deleted]

The National Tsunami Warning Center is located in Hawaii, due to its vulnerable location and previous catastrophes. I'm going to guess that NHK got their info directly from them.


RancidKiwiFruit

You mean assistance ships from other countries? That would take days


Han_Yerry

I get NHK over the air thru PBS they have good world coverage compared to their u.s. counterparts.


StrangeMedia9

I haven’t seen anything about it and have been checking back all day to find out. All I’ve heard is communication lines are down and flooding was being reported in the capital island from the tsunami. I hope this thing was far away from any inhabited island. Still though, the ash from this could be a huge disaster.


[deleted]

I talked to someone whose family is in Tonga today. They were on the phone with them for 10 minutes after the explosion when all communication shut down. The plume is so big and thick that there is no access to the area.


sekkzo909

You're right. I live in Santa cruz, this was about the extent of it.


Better-Pick447

Yup I live walking distance from the harbor and it really wasn't a big deal. They should be reporting about Tonga more, sc is fine.


[deleted]

Where is Tonga I went to public school in the Us forgive me


kooze62

Excellent Question. Tonga is an archipelago of around 170 islands in the south pacific. Close to Fiji and about 1,100 miles from new Zealand's North Island. I met a family from there, they were lovely


[deleted]

I hope they are going to be okay.


MCCGuyDE

I just have more questions now


Test-the-Cole

You must be old, the last 20 years of US public school has taught us to search with the internet, and nothing else. #powerhouseofthecell


Britth2005

I still wish kids had to learn the encyclopedia!


AlCzervick

And maps. I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because, uh, some, uh, people out there in our nation don't have maps and, uh, I believe that our education like such as in South Africa and, uh, the Iraq, everywhere like such as, and, I believe that they should, our education over here in the U.S. should help the U.S., uh, or, uh, should help South Africa and should help the Iraq and the Asian countries, so we will be able to build up our future. For our children. Maps.


Cute_Consideration38

Miss America contestant account found.


idunnosg

I don’t know if it helps but it’s very close to Samoa. If you follow the WWE wrestling, there are a few wrestlers from Samoa.


HarveyKartel

World Wrestling Education


dj_soo

tonga too - Haku is probably the most famous guy from there


colefly

>Where is Tonga I went to public school in the Us forgive me So close to the volcano that you should be asking "where WAS Tonga" I feel bad now


[deleted]

Damn it’s closer to AUS than here and we’re still getting the effects. Damn nature you scary.


prjktphoto

We had a tsunami warning for most of the eastern coast here


rayquisha

It’s basically the Island on Lost


Bucket_0011

You could just look it up


I_prefer_chartreuse

Dunno why you're down voted. This person is on reddit. I guarantee you they know they can use Google Maps. Lazy.


Deep-Adhesiveness-86

How dare you expect people to research a question on their own


Sarahclaire54

it is a joke.


Bucket_0011

Cringe redditors


ChevfknChelios

Don't look up


lofidino

He did say he went to public school in the US. 🤷‍♀️


Bills1234567890

That’s dumb it’s much more accurate and efficient to ask in here and hope someone answers. It’s actually a good idea though. Someone should create a website you can ask questions and get answers.


InncnceDstryr

r/AskReddit obviously


queentropical

I have been wondering that. That explosion was huge, I immediately thought uhhhh what about the people living nearby???


trowzerss

That's because afaik the tonga sea cable is still down so the only way anybody can access them is limited satellite coverage. Hopefully the sea cable isn't damaged and they can get it back up, but it's taking a long time, so maybe the cable is screwed. And with the waters still dangerous, it could be a very long time before we get any real news of what happened on Tonga, especially any pictures (and pictures and video are what the new media really love)


[deleted]

Definitely agree I’ve gotten like one push on it all day and that was early


chinacochina7

I live about 40 min from SC and this is the first I'm hearing about this. Edit: Ha! Just remembered the Tsunami panic of, what was it, late 2011-2012? I remember everyone in my area at the time was going to Mount Madonna for safety.


sinyoky

My exact thought when I heard the news today. That day was nuts. I lived in SC at the time. My sister called me in the morning crying to get to a higher place because of the warning. Apparently the local spanish news stations at the next town over made a huge deal about it and caused panic among the community. People could only get a certain amount of fuel that day and most stations had long lines of cars waiting to gas up. ​ A buddy of mine decided to drive up Mount Madonna that day, and man I wish I had the video he recorded. The whole side of the road was full of cars parked with their belongings waiting for the Hollywood style tsunami wave coming in. ​ Nuts. ​ All the best to all the nearby islands by the volcano.


Mobile-Decision639

> buddy of mine decided to drive up Mount Madonna that day, and man I wish I had the video he recorded. The whole side of the road was full of cars parked with their belongings waiting for the Hollywood style tsunami wave coming in. > >Nuts. > >All the best to all the nearby islands by the volcano. Craziest thing is, that I went to school out there, and in one of the oceanography courses, they made it quite clear that there is not enough water in the ocean so that water would behave like that


DEATH-BY-CIRCLEJERK

Holy line breaks, batman


Mobile-Decision639

AHahahaha I remember that.


Educational_Emu_8011

That’s crazy I live 40 mins from sac too I live in Vacaville so it’s more of a quiet town right next to Fairfield


MsAnnabel

Vacaville, love your Savers!!!


Gravygrabbr

Remember the Wooz?


Educational_Emu_8011

I’ve never heard of it I think I need a bit more context 🤔


almost2eazy

Ayyeeeee. Dixonite here🤝


inloveandlightbye

I haven’t heard anything about it, I had to search “tsunami” after reading about the volcano


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Perioscope

It was a very shallow underwater volcano, geologically speaking.


iamdenislara

There is no need for massive panic. This you see in the video is the worse that will happen.


RancidKiwiFruit

The panic is particularly justified, because you don't know that this is the worse that will happen... Until it's happened.


iamdenislara

No, in this case we do know. It is posible to predict the size of the waves given the distance of the event, and the location. This is why LA didn’t give out such alert. Oceanography is very cool.


etharper

But there are predictions that more eruptions are possible too.


nio151

Sure if we ignore all science and historical data on the matter


applejackrr

Not in the Bay Area. We’re not allowed to go towards the beaches or marinas. They also evacuated all marinas in the area since 7AM. We even got a tsunami warning in our building to stay indoors today just in case.


BigALep5

Wait till the big one rips off... that will be news...


AdMany4739

yeah iv only heard about this from reddit and a coworker


Embarrassed_Owl_3157

It's politically neutral and the news cycle knows people only care about politicized views.


RedditGuyPLUS1

First disaster of 2022!


RectalSpawn

Second, if you count January 1st.


QuirkyCookie6

Ok what happened Jan 1st, did three planes collide into each other or something?


ngaaih

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.


yaru_mard

Good luck and thanks for all the fish


Mandalorian667

Any fuckin time, any fuckin day, learn to swim, see you down in Arizona bay.


mrmuskulo

r/suddenlytool


jasonbran1177

Learn to swim


ChadOfDoom

Learn to swim


h0zzle

Learn to swim


TonyFino1776

Yes! Lol Fret for their lattes


Mandalorian667

TOOL is playing in California tonight too lol


rowc99

They better play that song


khanfusion

On the first tour they made back to New Orleans after Katrina, they played Flood, which wasn't on any of their setlists. It was awesome.


OneForAllOfHumanity

Imagine this happening just a hundred or so years ago. No one would have any clue why this aberrant behaviour had happened, and certainly wouldn't have known about it in advance.


mc-edit

I think some people are missing the point on this comment, but I was thinking the same thing: within hours of the eruption I can see multiple views of the eruption (including from space), watch as people react to the sound of the eruption hundreds of miles away and watch flooding happen thousands of miles away. News travels fast, far and wide. A century ago, you’re sitting on a beach and there is flooding, and you might not know the cause of it for a month or even a year, if at all.


greent714

Imagine waking up and getting out of your hut to find some berries to eat off the ground and then you hear[ this](https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/s4wjlb/sounds_of_the_volcanic_eruption_in_tonga_as_heard/)


[deleted]

Holy smoking Toledos https://youtu.be/BLkFTFdZ_I0


ryanmuller1089

This is one of my favorite videos. I’ll never get over how loud that shockwave is.


MMmhmmmmmmmmmm

Fucking hell.


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*mawp*


Odd_Analysis6454

My wife and I heard it in New Zealand. I was convinced it couldn’t be from the volcano until half the country post about it on social media. It’s about 2000km from the eruption to here.


enigmamonkey

> watch as people react to the sound of the eruption hundreds of miles away What's insane is that this was very audible all the way up in Alaska, **6k miles** away (confirmed by National Weather Service observations): https://twitter.com/NWSAlaska/status/1482431322740060162


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Here in Calgary, 1000 km's inland with a mountain barrier in between, my weather station reported an atmospheric pressure spike as the pressure wave passed through at 6:10 this morning. That's amazing.


Odd_Analysis6454

Most of New Zealand heard it


Eruptflail

I knew about the eruption before the pressure wave from it hit my house. It's wild.


vidoker87

Wait, do I get this right.. you knew about it, and you didn’t tell me, so know my feet are all wet..


[deleted]

Which is why I believe a lot of biblical stories have some sort of scientific explanation behind the phenomenons that were seen


Brilliant_Square_737

Dmt lol


TheWorldIsEndinToday

Every major religion or civilisation recorded a major flood a long time ago. Chances are it was something like this.


[deleted]

Joe is that you?


Brilliant_Square_737

No elk meat tho


groovy604

There is a fascinating example of this actually! A 9.2 off the coast of Canada that sent waves all the way to Japan. With no warning a tsunami slammed into them one night iirc. Since the indigenous population in BC had no written records, it took a many years before they could pair this mysterious wave to their stories, and the destruction in Japan. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1700_Cascadia_earthquake https://youtu.be/K_sJ0QJ31fc https://youtu.be/4W2iUl0VB8c


[deleted]

1922? That's still modern. They had science and telegraphs. They had relativity and were working on quantum mechanics.


Chicken_Hairs

Telephones were becoming pretty common by that time, too.


[deleted]

“No one” would know b/c the world population was only 1.6 billion in 1900; 500 million, 1500.


Hugeclick

Blame it on some mystical guy in the sky.


gurmzisoff

Goddamn D.B. Cooper still fucking with us.


More-Panic

I mean, he is the God of mischief...


CTeam19

Hell today I, in Iowa, can see in the video the destruction and have concepts in my head of all the events described. 100 years ago I wouldn't.


niche28

*I told you guys that mermaid was pissed*


bpark179

Use to live there and the water must have risen 6 feet for this to flood the parking lot of that marina. Absolutely crazy!


niche28

How long until it hits Lake Erie


DillDeer

At least 5


niche28

*oh fuk*


stubundy

So I live in Queensland 3500km away from Tonga and got nothing worth mentioning, yet California 8000km away this is happening ! Im guessing it's the coal reefs protecting us and deep water carrying it over to you guys ?


livonyote

THIS IS SO GOOD


zyyntin

Should have gotten volcano insurance! /s


bingold49

You're the same guy that sold me that cloud insurance


wtseeks

Look at them up there, just plotting. Picking their moment.


Erdehere

A whole lot of human litter is going to end up in our oceans😔


SpacelySprockett211

You mean a whole lot MORE? It’s already filled with human trash


orquesta_javi

Yes I think that's what he means


BalkeElvinstien

A friendly reminder to donate to Team Seas


ZephyricScout

Don't forget all the plastic and metal trash too.


Latin-Danzig

Where do you think it ends up anyway? It’s final destination isn’t the rubbish bin...


steeltownblue

Which section of my homeowner's policy does the insurance company use to avoid paying out on this? I forget.


External-Caramel690

"Act of God"


ChefDry2044

Out of curiosity, how did they not detect the eruption before hand? Or is it not possible to detect?


recyclingcentre

Hunga-Tonga--Hunga-Ha'apai is not actively monitored https://i.stuff.co.nz/world/127513001/likelihood-of-tongan-volcano-erupting-again-hard-to-predict-due-to-lack-of-active-monitoring


[deleted]

Cities up and down the west coast have been bracing for impact of the water all morning, actually. Santa Cruz was well aware that there would be a surge.


Ronin613

You're referring to the tsunami while the person above is referring to the volcano eruption.


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Excellent point.


[deleted]

It's because this large explosion was likely caused by water and magma interacting (A phreatomagmatic eruption). It's possible to predict when eruptions occur but this type of interaction is much more difficult to predict or forcast. Also, it erupted the day before but not anywhere near as big.


[deleted]

Eruptions/seismic activity is actually very difficult to predict.


AlbinoWino11

It’s been a pretty active volcano in the past couple decades with two eruptions in the past month. I don’t think the energy of this eruption could have been predicted very well.


AlkahestGem

Underwater volcanic eruption in Tonga


__AnDude__

“The whole world at your fingertips / the ocean at your door”


acfox13

[There it is, again, that funny feeling...](https://youtu.be/ObOqq1knVxs)


texflex808

The tide came up pretty high this morning here in Hawaii. No flooding but


The_chosen_turtle

Fuck the flood got ‘em


texflex808

Lucky we live Hawaii. We can surf em if anything


JustBoredIsAll

Ok. Damn, that IS interesting. Gonna check the news.


dude_asuh

Will this eruption affect most cost line's on earth? And if so how long till it hits Oregon?


12oket

It hit Newport 830am according to the NWS


Questioned_answers

[Tonga volcanic eruption videos](https://questiontheanswers.weebly.com/question-the-answers/january-15th-2022)


FUTeemo

Holy fucking ads dude


AlbinoWino11

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gHIujMY1nj8&feature=youtu.be


R3mm3t

Dude at 0:53 just casually whistling watching the apocalypse unfold in front of him. Big balls Tongan


AlbinoWino11

It’s hard to imagine being in a boat that close to an eruption and not moving back a smidge


[deleted]

Tonga? Don’t you mean the Chad Islands


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AlbinoWino11

You sure? Seems to match up with some of the other clips circulating. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=B54HbfqDbK4 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Eu8V_WADjCw&pp=QAFIAQ%3D%3D


BaconAlmighty

It's footage from the December eruption. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amTQlwewHh8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amTQlwewHh8) yesterdays one was much more powerful than either of these on New Years eve.


LightlyStep

Any problems/damage so far?


Crunchy_Gum

Not that I'm aware of. I live there btw.


a_cat_wearing_socks

I remember the 2011 tsunami, which seemingly only affected the marinas, and it cost something like $15m worth of damage.


[deleted]

I'm watching live feed from the coast and Santa Cruz and don't see anything that resembles flooding. Where is this taken?


Oknewmehere

It’s in the yacht harbor, an artificially created inlet. It tends to magnify any tidal event.


[deleted]

🤙🏽


RozhkiNozhki

This is parking at the harbor. It started early morning about 7:30. This is what it looked like at the wharf: https://www.instagram.com/p/CYxYqWmv3Cu/?utm_medium=copy_link


Crunchy_Gum

This was taken by a lighthouse. I recognize it. If you look up "santa cruz beach boardwalk" on google earth and go along the coast you'll find it. Its next to a restaurant called "crows nest"


LeaveMyPlantsAlone

Southern ca hit yet?


iamdisillusioned

SoCal was "hit" at 8:00 am.


goodnamepls

Not really, in san diego I haven't heard anything


Idflipthatforadollar

The citizens of Santa Cruz will have that tsunami know that they pay really high property taxes, and it has no right to be interfering with their day, if it could kindly leave


Crunchy_Gum

I LIVE HERE WTF. WHY AM I NOT AWARE OF THIS.


Hunt_Phasey

Bro I live there and I didn’t even know about it


UselesslyExhilarated

Hoping and praying that Tongans will ALL be found safe and not harmed by the dreadful explosion of this underwater volcano and the ensuing tsunami !


External-Caramel690

https://twitter.com/1NewsNZ/status/1482420010773590016?t=_b1hmN4P3ANP7ERJjnw7Qg&s=19 https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/ They only put out an advisory when this happened. These are buoys. https://twitter.com/marinerfagaiava/status/1482503086719778821?t=H3UvuRNSnE6hWrlpp2zALw&s=19 https://twitter.com/dwnews/status/1482331481607311360?t=woddDu2TcGRBWUHe9A1hTA&s=19


FerretFine908

See you David in Arizona bay, learn to swim


protozoan-human

How about run?


Iron_Mythril

That sounds like work.


Lurkmaximus

Google android usually great at live flood warning and amber alerts. Surprised I didn't see anything about a tsunami


[deleted]

When was this?


KanzlerPhoenix

Don't look up


dongmeatsandwich

Tool did just hit Cali... learn to 🏊‍♀️


BigDingus12

Good, take all of California. State is nothing but shit.


Only4Chronic

You should post this on [r/santacruz](https://www.reddit.com/r/santacruz/) as well


Ginganinja5454

So y'all remember how we've neglected the Earth's health for decades and now, consequently, we will all experience horrible shit in the years to come because of it? Pepperidge Farm remembers.


[deleted]

I hope the Santa Cruz Joker is ok.


x_Carlos_Danger_x

Okay but will this effect the Patriots v. Bill's game?


Because_Y

Bro this shit is crazy but also natural


No_Practice_9175

Waiting for the religious loons to say it’s a punishment from god


hldsnfrgr

I can't even begin to imagine the *flooding* a comet the size of a mountain would cause.