The Most Powerful Volcanic Explosion in Recorded History – Hunga Tonga 2022

Описание: 00:00 — Cold open (23:40 Zulu, silence → planet-scale blast)
A submarine volcano near Tonga erupts with the energy of 15 megatons, punching ash 58 km into the mesosphere, ripping an island apart, and sending pressure waves around Earth—again and again. What snapped, why no one saw it coming, and how a single blast triggered tsunamis across the Pacific.

What you’ll learn
• The phreatomagmatic chain reaction that turned seawater into shrapnel
• Radar/CTBTO/MLS/GLM data: shock fronts, 400k+ lightning strokes, stratospheric water vapor spike (~+10%)
• Why the pressure wave lapped the globe multiple times
• How DART buoys mapped a volcano-driven trans-Pacific tsunami
• Why undersea cables failed and Tonga went dark for weeks
• The real lesson: monitoring gaps, warning timelines, and what “predicting” looks like in the oceanic Ring of Fire

Chapters
00:00 The blast that stunned the planet
00:36 Restless weeks before detonation
02:32 The trigger nobody saw
04:16 58 km plume & megaton math
05:30 A planet-wide pressure pulse
06:05 Lightning storm in the stratosphere
07:00 Tsunami races across the Pacific
08:26 Ashfall & a nation cut off
09:26 What Hunga Tonga proved (and what’s next)

Question for you
Did the global pressure wave or the cable blackout shock you more—and why?

Visuals are a mix of licensed stock and AI-assisted reconstructions. Educational/analytical intent.

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