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jakeXT

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Thu Apr 23, 2015, 03:56 PM Apr 2015

Chilean volcano send shockwaves through the atmosphere

When Chile's Calbuco volcano blew its lid on Wednesday afternoon, the eruption sent shockwaves rippling through the Earth's upper atmosphere, like a rock thrown into a pond.

A satellite known as Suomi NPP, a joint NASA and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration project, detected the waves rippling out around the volcano when set against the backdrop of the atmosphere's "airglow." The University of Wisconsin's satellite meteorology blog posted unique imagery of the eruption, which shows that it looked like a mushroom cloud from a nuclear test.



http://mashable.com/2015/04/23/chile-volcano-shockwaves-atmosphere/
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Chilean volcano send shockwaves through the atmosphere (Original Post) jakeXT Apr 2015 OP
Thanks for Posting That Leith Apr 2015 #1
I saw a similar thing on a drive out of Orange County, California.... Spitfire of ATJ Apr 2015 #2
Does that ever bring back memories. n/t lumberjack_jeff Apr 2015 #3
 

Spitfire of ATJ

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2. I saw a similar thing on a drive out of Orange County, California....
Thu Apr 23, 2015, 04:35 PM
Apr 2015

It was from a rapidly burning brush fire on a nearly windless day near sunset.

It looked just like an atomic bomb mushroom cloud.

Creepy.

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