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- Title
The January 15th, 2022 Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai eruption recorded in Brazil.
- Authors
Dourado, Francisco; Filippo, Alessandro; Candella, Rogério; de Souza, Lúcio Silva; Urbano, Domingos; Evangelista, Heitor; Costa, Pedro
- Abstract
Extreme events affect societies all around the world. A recent example is the submarine volcano Hunga Tonga- Hunga Ha'apai in the South Pacific Ocean, which erupted on January 15, 2022 at approximately 0415 UTC, expelling ash up to 39 kilometers high. Instruments around the world recorded both the initial atmospheric shock wave and the subsequent tsunami signal. The aim of this work is to report the record from tide gauges and barometers of this event along the Brazilian coast. For this, the tsunami travel time to Brazil was calculated, and spikes in atmospheric pressure data and noise in the tide gauge records were identified. The arrival of the tsunami waves was clearly observed in tidal records from three stations located in Imbituba, Arraial do Cabo, and Salvador. In addition, in Belém and Santana, the signal-to-noise ratio was too low or there was no signal at all. Surprisingly, the atmospheric signal was less observable. The shock wave signature was evident in the Fortaleza atmospheric pressure data, while at the Imbituba and Belém stations the signal only appeared after filtering the data by calculating the highest and lowest pressure difference within the hour. The weaker, or absence of, barometric signal is likely associated with the supposed attenuation, or blocking, of the signal by the Andes Mountains.
- Subjects
BELEM (Brazil); HUNGA Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai Eruption &; Tsunami, 2022; TSUNAMIS; SUBMARINE volcanoes; TRAVEL time (Traffic engineering)
- Publication
Ocean & Coastal Research, 2022, Vol 70, p1
- ISSN
2675-2824
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1590/2675-2824070.22050fd