#hunga tonga

[transparentgentlemenmarker]

Le Hunga Tonga est un véritable monstre sous-marin. S'élevant à 1,8 km du fond de la mer, il s'étend sur 20 km de large et sa caldeira sous-marine mesure 5 km de diamètre. Lorsqu'il entre en éruption le 14 janvier 2022, il provoque une détonation équivalente à 110 mégatonnes de TNT, entendue à plus de 9000 kilomètres.

Situation

[cosmonautroger]

[whereisko]

[isoetiks]

Massive volcanic eruption in Tonga.

[disastergis]

Before and after the  Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai eruption using Sentinel-1 satellite imagery. Very little landmass above water exists anymore and all of Tonga is like a moonscape with hazardous ash covering it. 

Fresh water is their main concern right now as more and more information is starting to come from the area.

Another eruption has just occurred (2022-01-16) but appears to be smaller in size

[rodentfolk]

2022 Tonga Donation Commissions

Due to the volcanic eruption and tsunami that have both hit Tonga quite recently, I have decided to start donation commissions for the next month.

Until the 17th of February, any money from commissions will be donated to providing aid for those in Tonga.

Alternatively, if you have already donated to a relief fund for Tonga quite recently, you can send me proof of the receipt that came along with your donation instead.

Here's a link to my commissions carrd to refer to.

[unfuckablebogtroll]

Honestly, if you don’t care deeply for your fellow humans, if no part of you feels a connection and kinship even with people on the opposite side of the globe, who you have never met, then I don’t want to know you. I can’t understand people who just… don’t care unless it affects them. People who can joke about real human suffering simply because they do not personally know the humans who are suffering. What is that like?

I know I’m a soft bleeding heart, but how do you not even recognize yourself in the face of another? The human animal is diverse and far-ranging, but we come from the same root. We all sing and dance and make dumplings. If I am a brief moment of the universe consciously experiencing itself, so is everyone else. Each of our brief moments has never happened before and will never happen again in the exact same way. What a wonderful, valuable thing!

And what a sad thing when people’s moments are cut short. Even by random events that no one could have prevented. Perhaps especially then. How do you not mourn their ending? How do you justify the lack of feeling? It makes sense that you would be most affected by the people who are close to you, but truly, does no part of you resonate with your distant cousins at all?

Now, that’s a tragedy.

[solarpunkmagazine]

https://twitter.com/us_stormwatch/status/1482229220415721475?s=21

Published Jan. 15, 2022.