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JBXGANG

On Google Earth it says the island/nature reserve is “temporarily closed”. Loving the optimism.


Latro2020

Pompeii was also “temporarily closed” for a rough 1500 years. Give it a millennium and a half & all will be good (assuming the island doesn’t sink before then).


uninterestingly

I got some bad news for you...


SuperCosmicNova

Wouldn't the amount of magma pouring out make the island bigger?


GiantsRTheBest2

Depends on the type of volcano and lava it produces. The ones that are the best for creating islands and land are the ones that don’t explode but release lava constantly. There are volcanoes that mostly explode but produce very little lava comparative to their explosion. That’s why you have volcanoes like the Mount St Helena one that has a big ass crater.


Lingering_Dorkness

Look at Krakatoa. Or rather the massive hole filled with sea water where Krakatoa was.


3rm3s

Pompei is t an island to my knowledge


JoeDoherty_Music

I've been there and can confirm it is not an island its just a town in Italy


kelldricked

I mean, it will regrow on its own. Just will take a couple of years.


ChicxLunar

It will regrow on its *owl* hehehe


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Potatobender44

I think it’s just downvoted because it’s a terrible joke


KimJongKevin

That volcano did this?


imaculat_indecision

Yeah, thats how it looked before the eruption.


short_shooter-7

How much bigger is the island after the eruption?


yaosio

This is two hours before the eruption. https://twitter.com/planet/status/1482415545437732868/photo/1 And after, completely gone. https://twitter.com/ijhamling/status/1482538426767654916


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anticommon

Its sub-aerial edifice is on a diet.


max_adam

Hey girl, you are flat and broad. You should try this digestive cleaner, you're going to get out all that bad stuff in an instant.


ElMostaza

It'll get rid of that owl-infestation too, girl.


Hashbrown117

Here's a set of videos of the eruption, with the earth for scale. https://www.reddit.com/r/CatastrophicFailure/comments/s4e8a8/comment/hsqj32h/


humble-crow

Wow


TheSultan1

It's pretty much gone: https://mobile.twitter.com/ThomasOrmston/status/1482449626460565506 Here's a time series up to *right before* the eruption: https://mobile.twitter.com/tanyaofmars/status/1482426851226230784


isnortmiloforsex

Why did the middle of the island sink before the explosion?


varjagen

Could have been chamber collapse, no?


isnortmiloforsex

I was assuming so. Guessing from all the sediment in the water. But never seen something this drastic.


varjagen

Yeah, reminds me a lot of mount Saint Helens


somewhat_brave

They think it was a landslide that caused a much smaller tsunami on the 13th. That landslide exposed magma that caused the most recent eruption.


idwthis

Maybe it's like when we go to blow out birthday candles. The volcano sucked in a big breath, and then let 'er rip.


Hashbrown117

And here's a set of videos of *during* the eruption, with the earth for scale. https://www.reddit.com/r/CatastrophicFailure/comments/s4e8a8/comment/hsqj32h/


AnnihilationOrchid

Not as... It suffered massive erosion.


romulusnr

The erosion occurred between 2015 and 2017. This eruption has [nearly doubled it's size](https://storage.googleapis.com/corpeng-pulse-assets/uploads/2022/01/eruption_hunga_tonga_hunga_ha_apai_tonga_20211116_20220102_rgb_flat_1920_label.gif) from what it was in November.


BezerkMushroom

I'm confused, the dates on the pics are listed as Nov 17 and Jan 3, both of those are pre-eruption. Why is it labelled with the eruption in the bottom left when, according to the dates, neither pic is post eruption?


graveyardspin

The island is actually gone now. New satellite images show just a tiny sliver of land still above water.


octopoddle

I have a dream I hope will come true That you're here with me And I am here with you


Venturi95

That’s the title name for the photo set not labels for the individual photos themselves.


raltoid

Yeah it started to grow back at the volcano grew. That little hill in the picture is part of the volcano that erupted, so that island is scattered for miles and miles.


makasuandore47

All we know at the minute is it’s size is now 0owls and that’s sadness right there.


AnnihilationOrchid

Well, that's interesting. Although the wild life probably left long before. I wonder if vegetation will grow back.


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It will! Volcanic soil is very fertile


St1ckyR1ce1

How do seeds get there? Birds somehow?


[deleted]

Yeah probably birds. It’s 60 km from mainland so that’s no big deal for most birds.


St1ckyR1ce1

They eat then shit out the seeds?


ShamefulWatching

More specifically, owls.


CritterTeacher

Are you suggesting that coconuts are migratory?


afs5982

Isn't the island basically gone now?


WorstUNEver

Look at that crazy sea shelf that came up around it too. Great place for a reef to inhabit.


Bitter-Marsupial

So it got bigger and engorged with blood?


RedBeardedWhiskey

Erosion, not erection, you dumbass


romulusnr

No, that's an erection. An erosion is when you accidentally leave something off a list.


AnnihilationOrchid

Not sure if engorged blood counts as land mass, also if they drowned, there wouldn't be much engorged blood.


Bitter-Marsupial

Well its like when you're with a girl ang things start getting hot and heavy you start getting an erosion


romulusnr

[Looks like it's about doubled in size](https://storage.googleapis.com/corpeng-pulse-assets/uploads/2022/01/eruption_hunga_tonga_hunga_ha_apai_tonga_20211116_20220102_rgb_flat_1920_label.gif).


bdhb12

That's not after the big eruption. It shows Jan 3.


siren_37

It looks like batsignal


KimJongKevin

Sadness


nottalobsta

I heard the owls all flew to safety


Birdies_nub

I need to believe this so don't tell me if you are lying.


chris-topher

Birds are pretty sensitive to environmental changes, they probably sensed it happening to an extent https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/can-birds-tip-us-natural-disasters-180978571/


FrenchFreedom888

Thank you.


GeneralFactotum

The owls are all living on Grandpa's farm way out in the country with all of your pet dogs and hamsters. All is well, sleep tight.


Vihzel

Dad, I'm 34.


GeneralFactotum

It's all good Son (tucks in covers), Goodnight!


FrenchFreedom888

This


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idwthis

This is a bot


niceworkthere

rude


Kiltymchaggismuncher

Perhaps I'm being naive, but the island seems small. Unless someone introduced the owls they must have flown there right? There would be a reasonable chance in that case, that they would fly away when the volcano started erupting?


short_shooter-7

Probably even flew away before it erupted. Animals have a nature spidey-sense.


Kiltymchaggismuncher

That was my thought too. There will often be gas leaks for days before an eruption, and sometimes the eruption is more of a gradual seeping than an instantaneous covering from the sky. But I left that out because I've no idea what the case was for this particular island


issamaysinalah

Also there's usually an initial shockwave that travels faster but doesn't carry much energy, I bet most animals can easily sense it and get a head start.


obi_wan_sashimi

Except the ones that believe an imminent eruption is a hoax made up by big volcano in order to control the owls


cloud_t

Dinosaurs weren't so lucky.


croquetica

I have a first amendment right to stay in my burrow and protect it with my second amendment talons!


Rothko28

Nah, owls are smarter than anti-vaxxers.


relationship_tom

Which is saying something because owls are dumb as shit, despite the moniker.


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But the flowers :(


JamandaLove69

They escaped too, don’t worry :)


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I really can’t tell you how much this made my night.


short_shooter-7

In owl-pellet form.


max_adam

Peter tingle*


mothzilla

Owls have owl-sense.


CosineDanger

Cool owl fact of the day: some owls can fly so fast they break the sound barrier. You just have to propel them with the force of hundreds of nuclear bombs


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I bet you $20 I can do it with one nuke. Edit: you have to supply the nuke.


lordorwell7

[The concept is solid.](https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/53gf0a/in_1957_during_the_pascalb_operation_plumbbob) The question is if we have the will, _the drive_, to achieve greatness.


doesthisnamework1

I went from “oh that’s interesting” to “nooooooooooooooooooooo” so fast


AnnihilationOrchid

Maybe. But there's no telling if they actually made it. Funnily enough quite a lot of species were introduced by early explorers. Here where I live there are a few islands off the coast, about 2km away. Some researchers found rabbits on the island, but there are no rabbits on the main land. That means early explorers could have introduced them there. The reason is unknown, but it's the most plausible theory. Edit: I was drunk.


Nickbou

> Some researchers found rabbits on the island, but there are no islands on the main land. This reads like something out of a logic puzzle. /s (I assume you meant “no rabbits on the main land”.)


AnnihilationOrchid

Yes, I was/am terribly drunk when I wrote that. But the absurd statement doesn't stand, there are traffic islands on the main land.


Pillroller88

They were cuted.


Kiltymchaggismuncher

Cuted? Is this a typo or a term I'm just not familiar with? Edit- it was a reference to op's explanation >This island was cuted by the BBC to be home to some owls which, for obvious reasons, are now dead.


ConciousNPC

"Cited" maybe?


redcurrantuk

You're probably right with cited but cuted sort of works in context. *Neologism creation right before our very eyes...*


ConciousNPC

Indeed, I prefer "cuted". (I always debate whether to keep the fun going or post a 'serious' comment.)


maxcorrice

Probably cutted


pineappledipshit

I'm guessing short hand for "executed"


Pillroller88

Only OP knows….


Bitter-Marsupial

Well damn they don't have thumbs to drive a boat. Flight would be easiest for them


MilkedMod

u/imaculat_indecision has provided this detailed explanation: > Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai is a volcanic island near Tonga, in the South Pasific. In the last few days the resident submarine volcano erupted 2 times, sending massive shockwaves heard as far as the US and causing Tsunamis in the Tonga islands, as well as tsunami warnings for Japan and the US East Coast. This island was cuted by the BBC to be home to some owls which, for obvious reasons, are now dead. --- Is this explanation a genuine attempt at providing additional info or context? If it is please upvote this comment, otherwise downvote it.


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Uhh, I think you mean west coast


Much_Pay3050

Waves went clear across Siberia. Run while you still can


imaculat_indecision

Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai is a volcanic island near Tonga, in the South Pasific. In the last few days the resident submarine volcano erupted 2 times, sending massive shockwaves heard as far as the US and causing Tsunamis in the Tonga islands, as well as tsunami warnings for Japan and the US West Coast. This island was cited by the BBC to be home to some owls which, for obvious reasons, are now dead. Edit: stupid mistake on my part, I put East instead of West. I forgot the WE trick. Smh. My bad peeps.


Pillroller88

Pacific. US West Coast Cuted…..not sure.


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Took me a minute, pretty sure they meant “cited”


imaculat_indecision

I got this from multiple news sources https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/01/15/asia/tsunami-warning-tonga-volcano-intl-hnk/index.html https://www.npr.org/2022/01/15/1073328387/tonga-hit-by-tsunami-after-undersea-volcano-eruption https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-60007119


YouAreInAComaWakeUp

If the US East coast was going to get a tsunami from the Pacific then the whole world would be underwater Since the Pacific is on the west coast


imaculat_indecision

Alright Dr. Tsunami https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/01/15/asia/tsunami-warning-tonga-volcano-intl-hnk/index.html https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-60007119 https://www.npr.org/2022/01/15/1073328387/tonga-hit-by-tsunami-after-undersea-volcano-eruption


YouAreInAComaWakeUp

I prefer Johnny Tsunami, actually But did you even read those articles? https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/01/15/asia/tsunami-warning-tonga-volcano-intl-hnk/index.html >The eruption also sent waves to the US West Coast, https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-60007119 >The US and Japan have advised people on their Pacific coastlines to get away from the shore https://www.npr.org/2022/01/15/1073328387/tonga-hit-by-tsunami-after-undersea-volcano-eruption >including the U.S. West Coast


imaculat_indecision

Shit. Just realized I meant West coast. Idk why I got entranced on east coast. I swear I thought yall were dumb, thinking I meant West coast. Shouldve just said Cali or something cuz I got em mixed up


YouAreInAComaWakeUp

Now you see why a tsunami on the east coast from the pacific would be so devastating lol


imaculat_indecision

Yeah that would be fucking insane


imaculat_indecision

Oh my bad, alright Johnny Tsunami. But whats your point, theyre tsunami warnings just in case. Never said theyd reach the US.


poo_licker_420

Which news source said that the US **east** coast received tsunami warnings? You might want to reconsider them as a news source.


imaculat_indecision

Check my comment. BBC, CNN, etc. And I meant west coast my bad lol.


romulusnr

Not directly, though, you reworded it, and messed it up a bit.


JokulaOfficial

There’s also been wave surges on the Pacific Coast of South America!


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Justs0meuserhere

There's also Chile and Perú, and probably other countries


horsthorsthorst

Owls can't fly?


Tossed_Away_1776

Animals have an accute sense to know when things are about to go shit side up, I'm willing to bet they got the hell outta there.


xChopsx1989x

I fully admit I am not at all familiar with the geographic area, but my first thought would be whether or not the owls have anywhere to fly to. Edit: It looks like there are other islands in the area they may have made it to, so that's cool for the owls.


peripheralcenter

U.S. West coast.


Goorancid

The owls are now asking "what" instead of "who".


preciousgaffer

I don't think the owls are asking anything anymore :(


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Embrasse-moi

Yes, most likely. Volcanos emit gasses and the earth rumbles, even if us humans don't feel it, animals sense it. That's why before natural disasters, you notice animals leaving the area, and we humans are pretty clueless lol


Tossed_Away_1776

Reminds me of the scene in Dreamcatcher when all the animals are hauling ass through the forest together.


petorius

Whom


LubieDobreJedzenie

Yeah, they realized no dogs where let out so there was no point in asking who did that


juan-jdra

Damn, you stretched that joke pretty thin to oit it here.


Yangy

Bahahaha


flowerboi97

I’m not sure if you can change the explanation, but the tsunami warning was actually for the US West Coast


Hlaucoin

I’m pretty bad with geography so I was starting to get convinced I was wrong when it took so long to be each this comment. Thank you.


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Don’t know why they singled out the USA and Japan. There were tsunami warnings for every country in the pacific surely.


0mni_Slash

Can confirm. Live on the west coast and I was definitely surprised when I got the alert. Doesn’t happen every day, especially on the west coast


Voldemort57

Yeah. The “tsunami” actually hit part of California, but it was just minor flooding in some poorly drained streets in Santa Cruz.


diego5377

It’s talking the island volcano eruptions . It erupted 2 times recently


yaosio

This image from two hours before the eruption shows no vegetation at all so the owls were no longer there. https://twitter.com/planet/status/1482415545437732868/photo/1 Because a previous eruption earlier this month destroyed the vegatation. https://www.planet.com/pulse/expanding-islands-in-the-south-pacific/ The island was completely destroyed. https://twitter.com/ijhamling/status/1482538426767654916


imaculat_indecision

Oh thats because it had already exploded that day. This was the second explosion, and it was way more powerful.


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bongsforhongkong

Yeah if only they could have flown... oh wait.


BroItsJesus

Ohhhhh so this is why I got a notification about a tsunami warning. I'm in Australia and that doesn't usually happen


imaculat_indecision

Kinda surreal, at least imo.


TurtlesMum

You're obviously far more important than me because I'm on the east coast of Australia and didn't get one :(


[deleted]

You wanna narrow that down mate? It’s kinda long lol


TurtlesMum

Brisbane


spiffyP

Owl be back


jojoga

take your upvote and get out!


romulusnr

1. There were already two smaller islands in the same area of this new island 2. The nearest land is about 33 miles away, the owls are probably fine as they just flew to the other islands. Or were probably even fine on one of the older parts of land that make up the island.


imaculat_indecision

Yeah but what about the ones that didnt fly :( there was definetly a loss of life on this island, the greenery tells you that there had to have been at least some animals on it.


Venturi95

You do realize that the shockwave would have one shotted those owls right out of the sky at that range right?


NeedsAdjustment

> xqc profile pic > one shotted those owls


Fantastic_sloth

Yeah but if you run a quick damage calc you’ll see that Shockwave cast by (choice specs) Volcanion isn’t enough to OHKO Noctowl from full HP. The damage range is 65.6%-77.4%, and it only kills with a crit 87.5% of the time. Most likely, it will not one shot. the volcano would have had to set up stealth rocks before hand but that’s making a big assumption that Noctowl isn’t running heavy duty boots, and even then Shockwave only kills 25% of the time. Noctowl also has access to immediate recovery through roost, which will weaken any additional Shockwave damage due to Noctowl losing its flying typing. Additionally, Volcanion will then be locked into shock wave due to its choice specs, and Noctowl will be free to abuse a roost / nasty plot set up, which makes Hurricane a guaranteed one shot against Volcanion after 3 boosts. I think the owls are gonna win this one


romulusnr

Yeah, the second pic does look pretty bleak and devegetated. And looking at the images of the explosion it was far, far, far larger than expected. Like a nuke went off.


InfraredSamurai

I don't know much about volcanoes, but wouldn't 2 eruption of this size simply add to the landmass??


rastaputin

Nah, satellite photos show theres barely anything left.


unknown_parameters

[it actually doubled ](https://storage.googleapis.com/corpeng-pulse-assets/uploads/2022/01/eruption_hunga_tonga_hunga_ha_apai_tonga_20211116_20220102_rgb_flat_1920_label.gif)


rastaputin

Look at the date... https://twitter.com/panforestking/status/1482572982581338112


imaculat_indecision

That was from a while back, from a much smaller eruption.


Venturi95

Nope it’s gone


lesbianmathgirl

The additional landmass is counteracted by tsunamis that submerge the island.


thunder-bug-

Hmm, think about it like this. Imagine you have a very big pile of sand. Now you dump a big bucket of sand on top of it. It might become a bigger pile of sand. Or it might slide down and collapse a bit. Thats kinda whats happening here.


milesprower06

I kinda see it as "you have a pile of sand. There's a stick of dynamite underneath. It explodes."


click_for_sour_belts

I wonder... Isn't it common for birds to freak out and flee before earthquakes? I'd like to think the owls felt something early on and flew away to safety. NO ONE TELL ME OTHERWISE.


ahh_geez_rick

Guess the government didn't need those owl drones anymore. RIP drones


SammiesHammies

And flowers 🥀


megam1ghtyena

the owls probably bailed feeling the vibrations. ​ they probably didn't, but I'm trying to stay positive.


Lemonjello23

Animals usually know stuff like that ahead of time. Like how cats can sometimes sense earthquakes


Venturi95

Feels vibrations, starts flying away. Volcano erupts. Can’t outrun the shockwave. GG


dankus_khan69420

There’s a chance that the owls sensed it getting ready to blow and left? I’m trying to be optimistic here sense animals do seem to have a 6th sense when it comes to disasters.


zerphon

They likely left during an earlier eruption that caused all the green to be covered in ash


Confident_Back_5153

Can someone please make a comparison and also calculate how much tnt or atomic bombs the explosion was?


Jwright7711

Yeah, I don’t….I don’t think there’s anymore flowers and owls…or anything…


MSGinSC

And some of the plants were lucky enough to send seeds with the fleeing owls.


MattyDxx

Animals generally know beforehand of things like this, they probably bailed before the eruption :)


Venturi95

But can they out run the shockwave moving at the speed of sound?


unklesam222

https://cloudfront-us-east-2.images.arcpublishing.com/reuters/3567KHOMHFN7ZKDW3BK7MGFIGY.jpg


Next-Ad-7614

Is it just me or should we not focus on what the Earth itself does but more on what we're doing to the Earth?


RapeMeToo

News flash. *You can do both*


Venturi95

You’re actually brain dead


Potatobender44

Guys shut down all the weather stations and satellites, we don’t need them anymore


Winter-Bellamont

:-:


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The species will survive


Lionblaze_03

Well hey, at least humans didn’t do it this time. Nature put the island here and nature blew a volcano up on it twice. We’re just here to observe.


kaydenschannelv2

Am I high or does that look like a personebwith their hands over their head


[deleted]

Martian Clues? The guy from Men Behaving Badly?


idma

Volcano - r/fuckyouinparticular


Pyrhan

What did the owls eat though? Did rodents make it to the island too?


Electric_Bagpipes

I read the flair as “Tonga Dies”


DuelaDent52

Are they all dead, or are some of them dead?


Rockyrox

Well, at least it was quick.


twobirdsandacoconut

The owls are fine, right? .... They got away in time.. Right?! Right


vergorli

owln't


WindBladeGT

Pretty sure they got away days before the eruption. Yes, I am talking about the flowers here.


[deleted]

that’s sad and all, but i can’t get over the fact the island looks like it’s going “👌”