tsunami warning tonga volcano eruption
Social media footage showed water washing through a church and several homes and witnesses said. Before communication with Tonga was lost a little more than an hour after the eruption on.
Tsunami Warning Ordered for Tonga Following Undersea Volcano Eruption No immediate reports of injuries.
. A tsunami has hit Tongas largest island Tongatapu and reportedly sent waves flooding into the capital of Nukualofa. A tsunami warning was issued for Tonga after the eruption on Jan. A tsunami warning is in effect for the island of Tonga after a volcanic eruption.
People have been forced to flee their homes and streets and buildings have flooded as tsunami waves crashed into Tongas main island of Tongatapu following a huge underwater volcano explosion. A video shows a possible tsunami wave hitting the. Some areas seem to have been hit harder than others.
Earlier the Matangi Tonga news site reported that scientists had observed massive explosions thunder and lightning near the volcano after it. Earlier the Matangi Tonga news site reported that scientists observed massive explosions thunder and lightning near the volcano after it started erupting early on Friday. The Tsunami A tsunami warning was declared for all of Tonga after the eruption on Saturday evening.
EPA The Tonga Meteorological Services issued a tsunami warning for the entire nation in response to two explosions in two. An underwater volcano in the South Pacific erupted violently on Saturday causing tsunamis to hit Hawaii Japan and Tongas largest island Tongatapu --. Ash was falling from the sky in Nukualofa on Saturday evening and phone.
The site said satellite. Tsunami waves caused by a giant underwater volcanic eruption have hit the Pacific country of Tonga.