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by miedpo 1611 days ago
Much smaller than Krakatoa so far. We'll have to see where it comes out on the VEI scale though. Krakatoa was really big, so I think it's pretty unlikely we will get close to that on this one.

The Tsunami they are guessing probably came from an earthquake or underwater landslide caused by the eruption, but the eruption doesn't really need to be huge to cause those. It'll be interesting to see once the eruption stops (if it's a landslide, you can usually see a crescent shaped formation on the volcano, although it may be underwater).