Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha’apai volcano
Pretty amazing!
Location from USGS:
Time
2022-01-14 21:14:45 (UTC-07:00)
Location
20.546°S 175.390°W
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000gc8r/executive
Background from the Smithsonian Volcano page:
https://volcano.si.edu/volcano.cfm?vn=243040
~160 megaton explosion. Heard in New Zealand and Alaska.
Barometers in NZ picked up the shockwaves.
Spoke to friends in Hawai'i. They didn't hear it, but the small tsunami turned their boat around.
I'll post more in a bit. Our new member of the Zone has been on top of the story since it started. Most of the links I have are from them.
A good thread on Twitter: https://twitter.com/DanLindsey77/status/1482363129128374276