Comment by noduerme

Man. This has got to count as the largest explosion on earth within any of our lifetimes. Anyone got a figure on how much pulverized rock would have been displaced into the atmosphere had this taken place on dry land? How long a nuclear winter we'd be in for? Or how this compares to Krakatoa? From the imagery it seems orders of magnitude larger as a single explosion than all the nuclear weapons we ever detonated combined. That shock wave goes over Tonga within the first couple frames.