Irkutsk, Russian Federation
Irkutsk, Russian Federation
The paper presents the results of recording of acoustic waves, caused by the Hunga Tonga volcano eruption in the South Pacific Ocean on January 15, 2022, in Eastern Siberia at a distance of about 11230 km from the eruption. The received acoustic signal is interpreted as a set of atmospheric waves in a wide range of oscillations. The structure of the signal is similar to signals from the previously known powerful sources: the thermonuclear explosion on Novaya Zemlya in 1961 and the explosion of the Tunguska meteorite in 1908. The acoustic signal was preceded by three trains of low-frequency damped oscillations. We assume that these three trains of oscillations are associated with three important stages in the Hunga Tonga volcano eruption: 1) destruction of Tonga island and formation of an underwater caldera; 2) release of hot magma from the caldera to the ocean surface and release of a large volume of superheated steam into the atmosphere 3) formation of a layered structure from a mixture of superheated steam, ash, and tephra on the ocean surface and formation of an eruptive convective column. Successive phases of the eruption might have contributed to the excitation of acoustic vibrations in a wide range of periods including Lamb waves, internal gravity waves (IGW), and infrasound. We compare the structure of the acoustic signal received in Siberia at a distance of more than 11000 km from the volcano and that of the acoustic signal recorded in Alaska at a distance of more than 9300 km. Using the solution of the linearized Korteweg — de Vries equation, we estimate the energy released during the volcanic eruption.
atmosphere, acoustic wave, Lamb wave, infrasound, volcanic eruption, Tunguska meteorite, homogeneous atmosphere, eruption energy
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