[Starlink] Tonga volcano update

Ulrich Speidel u.speidel at auckland.ac.nz
Mon May 23 05:24:41 EDT 2022


So the good folk at NIWA went up there on the RV Tangaroa and found 
around 7 cubic kilometres of material around the volcano that wasn't 
there beforehand:

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/467709/deadly-tongan-volcano-unlikely-to-erupt-in-near-future-niwa-scientists
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-61529290

Perhaps not a surprise that the cables went down, after all. Much of 
that junk would have ended up on top of the domestic cable.

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