Alert Mongoose Posted January 15, 2022 Share Posted January 15, 2022 Should this poster really be starting threads about potential disasters…? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaspianChris Posted January 15, 2022 Share Posted January 15, 2022 22 minutes ago, oaksoft said: Krakatoa's eruption was picked up in the UK by all accounts. Then the effects of that on the climate was felt for quite some few years after in the global tempature being lowered but can't remember by how much though of memory. Was quite a few spectacular sunsets as a result though. Krakatoa was VEI 6 in scale. Be interesting to see what this one registers at. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shandon Par Posted January 16, 2022 Share Posted January 16, 2022 16 hours ago, Inanimate Carbon Rod said: First bit of this video, guy just stands there and gets fucked by a tidal wave. Incredible. He’s absolutely telegraphing that right hand early on. I’d have him spitting teeth before he got a chance to do any of the fancydan stuff. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AUcal Posted January 16, 2022 Share Posted January 16, 2022 There's still very little news about the impact it's had on Tonga. There's been limited contact with the capital island (where the bulk of the population live) but not much is known other than that. Most of the islands are very flat so there has to have been some awful damage. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AUcal Posted January 16, 2022 Share Posted January 16, 2022 7 minutes ago, Snafu said: This video of that guy keeps getting shown despite it not being from Tonga but from the 2018 tsunami that devastated coastal Indonesia. But it does show that tsunamis are are not to be messed with. Very little footage come out of Tonga yesterday and they are or have been cut off. Hopefully help has come already. No news from other Islands nearby. Footage being shown from along the South American coast, a lot of people caught unawares. I think New Zealand and Australia have said they're sending planes over to try and assess the damage. Most of Tonga is still covered in a cloud of ash so it must feel pretty grim there. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted January 16, 2022 Share Posted January 16, 2022 5 minutes ago, AuAl said: I think New Zealand and Australia have said they're sending planes over to try and assess the damage. Most of Tonga is still covered in a cloud of ash so it must feel pretty grim there. Heard earlier from the NZ pm that they had to wait for the ash cloud to reduce as it was up to 60.000 feet and the planes can't go that high. Mobile phones are back working on the main island but nobody knows the state of the smaller ones. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inanimate Carbon Rod Posted January 16, 2022 Share Posted January 16, 2022 I will never ever understand the fascination with running towards massive explosions or a things with a camera, i dont get the thought process ‘i might die here but at least i’ll get facebook clout?’. Its the same in the western world too with the filming and stuff. Fair enough if youre in a tsunami area in high ground, but f**k running to a beach just to get a picture. Same goes for media outlets who force reporters outside in floods/hurricanes etc in the UK/USA. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
101 Posted January 16, 2022 Share Posted January 16, 2022 3 hours ago, Snafu said: I would guess that shock waves through the earth from that eruption were picked up by seismic monitors here in the UK. Saw this, pretty amazing. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
throbber Posted January 16, 2022 Share Posted January 16, 2022 35 minutes ago, Inanimate Carbon Rod said: I will never ever understand the fascination with running towards massive explosions or a things with a camera, i dont get the thought process ‘i might die here but at least i’ll get facebook clout?’. Its the same in the western world too with the filming and stuff. Fair enough if youre in a tsunami area in high ground, but f**k running to a beach just to get a picture. Same goes for media outlets who force reporters outside in floods/hurricanes etc in the UK/USA. People have only been able to film natural phenomena like that for a few years in the grand scheme of things. For some people capturing things like that for themselves is worth the risk. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted January 16, 2022 Share Posted January 16, 2022 2 hours ago, Shandon Par said: Incredible. He’s absolutely telegraphing that right hand early on. I’d have him spitting teeth before he got a chance to do any of the fancydan stuff. The draft created would've knocked you over, before the wave came in. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coprolite Posted January 16, 2022 Share Posted January 16, 2022 45 minutes ago, Inanimate Carbon Rod said: I will never ever understand the fascination with running towards massive explosions or a things with a camera, i dont get the thought process ‘i might die here but at least i’ll get facebook clout?’. Its the same in the western world too with the filming and stuff. Fair enough if youre in a tsunami area in high ground, but f**k running to a beach just to get a picture. Same goes for media outlets who force reporters outside in floods/hurricanes etc in the UK/USA. I think people underestimate the risks. Tsunamis and pyroclastic flows both look relatively harmless from a distance. Once you've clocked the speed and destructiveness it's probably too late. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacksgranda Posted January 16, 2022 Share Posted January 16, 2022 17 minutes ago, coprolite said: I think people underestimate the risks. Tsunamis and pyroclastic flows both look relatively harmless from a distance. Once you've clocked the speed and destructiveness it's probably too late. But assuming your phone survives you'll have some great footage... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coprolite Posted January 16, 2022 Share Posted January 16, 2022 Just now, Jacksgranda said: But assuming your phone survives you'll have some great footage... You might even be transformed into a fetching Pompeii style statue. Not by a tsunami, obviously. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacksgranda Posted January 16, 2022 Share Posted January 16, 2022 7 minutes ago, coprolite said: You might even be transformed into a fetching Pompeii style statue. Not by a tsunami, obviously. No, but you might create a new record for getting from the beach to being impaled on railings at the other side of the island in record time. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgecutter Posted January 16, 2022 Share Posted January 16, 2022 At least seeing these pictures of Tonga has made it a real place. Previously it was nothing more than a name on the SRU autumn international fixtures list and something from the 'name that flag' games. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted January 16, 2022 Share Posted January 16, 2022 25 minutes ago, Hedgecutter said: At least seeing these pictures of Tonga has made it a real place. Previously it was nothing more than a name on the SRU autumn international fixtures list and something from the 'name that flag' games. Oh, it's real alright. The fattest nation on earth apparently and live entirely on mutton flaps. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inanimate Carbon Rod Posted January 16, 2022 Share Posted January 16, 2022 4 hours ago, coprolite said: I think people underestimate the risks. Tsunamis and pyroclastic flows both look relatively harmless from a distance. Once you've clocked the speed and destructiveness it's probably too late. Absolutely, its darwin awards stuff. Maybe its just me, but if i hear a massive explosion or suddenly see the sea retreat back pre-tsunami then the very last thing im going to do is stay put or indeed run towards the big f**k off blast if im not responding to the emergency. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joey Jo Jo Junior Shabadoo Posted January 16, 2022 Share Posted January 16, 2022 Could someone tell me exactly where the volcano is? Be Pacific. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theroadlesstravelled Posted January 16, 2022 Share Posted January 16, 2022 3 hours ago, Sergeant Wilson said: Oh, it's real alright. The fattest nation on earth apparently and live entirely on mutton flaps. Mutton flaps? I think I dated her. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted January 16, 2022 Share Posted January 16, 2022 3 hours ago, Sergeant Wilson said: Oh, it's real alright. The fattest nation on earth apparently and live entirely on mutton flaps. Something for Scotland to aspire to I suppose. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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