Another 'large eruption' detected at the Tonga volcano, a Darwin-based monitoring station says, three days after first eruption triggered tsunami waves around Pacific
A plume rises over Tonga when the underwater volcano erupted in this satellite image taken by Himawari-8, a Japanese weather satellite on January 15, 2022.
Another "large eruption" has been detected at the Tonga volcano, a Darwin-based monitoring station said, three days after a first eruption triggered tsunami waves around the Pacific. The latest eruption was detected at 2210 GMT on Sunday, according to an alert by the Darwin Volcanic Ash Advisory Centre. "This might be from another explosion of Tonga volcano. There are no known earthquakes of significant size to generate this wave."
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