Friday, March 20, 2009

Undersea Volcano Eruption

Most people have probably heard about this already, but the pictures are too cool not to post. Earlier this week a deep-sea volcano near Tonga in the South Pacific began erupting and put on quite a show (video at link).




More pics here.
The eruption poses no threat to the island, but flights through the area have been re-routed to avoid the smoke and debris.


1 comments:

The Doc said...

Well, it poses no threat to the island itself, but it's made things quite uncomfortable for the birds and bees that were hanging out there.

I also read somewhere that this has actually produced a new, smaller island next to the existing island.

THAT is cool.