Tonga, NASA: the eruption “500 times stronger than the atomic bomb on Hiroshima”

While trying to figure out the exact extent of the damage caused by the eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Hàapai vuclane in Tonga, a Pacific archipelago, scientists are developing the first data on the explosion.

James Garvin, a scientist in charge of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, said the strength of the eruption was estimated to be equivalent to 5-10 megatons of TNT, a strength 500 times higher than TNT. that of the atomic bomb dropped by the United States on Hiroshima, Japan, at the end of the Second World War.