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NZ tsunami surge warning cancelled, Nukuâalofa 'like moonscape'

Coverage of the ongoing situation in Tonga and across the Pacific after a large eruption of Hunga-Tonga-Hunga-Ha'apai on Saturday, causing tsunami waves, as it happened.
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.20am: Experts in New Zealand have described the large eruption as “very significant” and “remarkable”.

Dr Emily Lane from NIWA described it as “very significant” due to the eruption cloud and shock wave being captured by satellite, the eruption being heard in New Zealand and the tsunami being recorded on gauges here, more than 2500km away.

Professor Shane Cronin from the University of Auckland’s School of Environment said the eruption was “remarkable” for the same reasons.

“This suggests the eruption of large volumes of gas-charged magma at Hunga volcano,” he said.

“The January 15 eruption is so large that it is likely to be an event that alters the caldera … Further eruptions from this caldera during this episode could generate new tsunami and widespread ashfall, especially if there caldera has further collapses or landslides.”

Cronin said “significant” ashfall was likely in Tongatapu as well as the Ha’apai group of island

The sky in Tonga has been described on social media as "pitch black" thanks to ashfall.
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not to sound too eeyoreish, but we have a lot of bad and more frequent extreme weather events/catastrophes coming our way, don't we?

kinda glad to not live on a coast.
 
hockeylover said:
not to sound too eeyoreish, but we have a lot of bad and more frequent extreme weather events/catastrophes coming our way, don't we?

kinda glad to not live on a coast.
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We do, and I'm saying fuck it and moving to the coast in a few years.

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so as someone who is accustomed to extreme weather events on a weekly or biweekly basis, is this blizzard in Toronto I am hearing about actually noteworthy, or are yall just blizzard deprived?

for context, the past two weekends my markets have been closed cause of nor'easters dumping upwards of 10+mm of rain and 10+ cm of snow with a healthy mix of ice.

today it snowed heavily for a couple hours and has since been teeming with rain and 90+ km/hr wind gusts. expecting upwards of 15 mm of rain. perhaps more snow tomorrow.
 
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