What do the Costco Guys and the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Haapai volcano have in common?
The team, from GNE Sciencea state-owned research institutepublishedits findings earlier this year inCommunications Earth & Environment.
It wasnt just an auditory experience for some.
A satellite image of the Tonga eruption.Images: NASA Earth Observatory / Joshua Stevens / Lauren Dauphin / CALIPSO data from NASA/CNES, MODIS and VIIRS data from NASA EOSDIS LANCE and GIBS/Worldview and the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership, and GOES imagery courtesy of NOAA and the National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS)
I had never heard/felt anything like them beforemost unusual, wrote one of the survey participants.
Noises my ears heard coupled with a bodily sensation as if I could feel the sounds.
Of course, in some places the shock waves of the eruption were such that the soundscouldbe felt.
The noises were so loud, our windows and front door shook with each boom, wrote participant 305.
Though the eruption happened nearly three years ago, researchers continue to learn new things about the event.
That said, NASA isworking on an aircraft designthat could mitigate the cracking sound into a mere sonic thump.
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