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Tonga underwater volcano disrupted satellite signals halfway around the world

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​Nagoya, Japan (SPX) May 24, 2023

An international team has used satellite- and ground-based ionospheric observations to demonstrate that an air pressure wave triggered by volcanic eruptions could produce an equatorial plasma bubble (EPB) in the ionosphere, severely disrupting satellite-based communications. Their findings were published in the journal Scientific Reports.

The ionosphere is the region of the Earth’s upper a