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I mean your not wrong, the article is illustrating the mushroom cloud and ash cloud after 24 hours. So the explosive eruption its self is much smaller.
by vanattab 5y ago
I mean your not wrong, the article is illustrating the mushroom cloud and ash cloud after 24 hours. So the explosive eruption its self is much smaller.
- robotresearcher 5y ago"Around the time of the initial eruption, a cloud measuring 38 km (24 miles) wide is thrust into the atmosphere. Its diameter already measures almost twice the length of Manhattan, New York. One hour later, it appears to measure around 650 km wide, including shock waves around its edge." One hour. Sanity check: it's never dark in the animations, which it would be if the images were taken over 24 hours. In other views you can see the night approaching.
- ChrisClark 5y agoAfter 1 hour actually, not 24 hours. But it is really mostly a huge ash cloud, not the explosion itself.
- mlindner 5y ago650 km in 1 hour (in diameter), aka 325 km/hr, aka about 1/4 the speed of sound. So yes that's basically the explosion.
- ChrisClark 5y agoActually, when you put it like that. Yikes! That's a crazy amount of energy!