The eruption of an underwater volcano in Tonga generated tsunami alerts on Saturday in various countries located on the Pacific coast.
The eruption of an underwater volcano in Tonga generated tsunami alerts in various countries this Saturday and hit the east coast of the United States and Canada and also that of Japan, and generated concern in all countries with access to the Pacific, with evacuations in various regions. From Chile.
The island nation of Tonga, in the South Pacific, where the volcanic eruption occurred, is located more than 10,000 kilometers from the coast of Ecuador, but in the same way, the Oceanographic and Antarctic Institute of the Ecuadorian Navy (Inocar) announced that the The Galapagos archipelago suffered variations of 50 centimeters in sea level in the area of Academia Bay, in Santa Cruz.
According to the US Tsunami Warning Service on its website, the tsunami waves ranged from 3 centimeters (0.1 feet) recorded in Isla Mujeres and Puerto Morelos (Mexico) to 12 centimeters (0 .4 feet) measured on the island of Mona, in Puerto Rico (United States), said the service belonging to the National Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
The violent explosion was recorded in images taken by satellites, published by the Meteorological Service of the American island of Hawaii.
This is how the satellites captured on video the violent eruption of an underwater volcano on the island of Tonga
The submarine volcano Hunga-Tonga-Hunga-Ha’apai, located about 65 kilometers north of the Tongan island of Tongatapu, recorded an eruption of about eight minutes around 5:20 p.m. local time (4:20 GMT) and launched a huge column of ash kilometers high. The eruption was so strong that it was heard “like distant thunder” in the Fiji Islands, more than 800 km away, Fiji officials said.
The eruption of this January 15, the second in just two days, it was the latest in a series of eruptions from the underwater volcano. According to a public advisory from the Geological Survey of Tonga monitoring the Hunga-Tonga-Hunga-Ha’apai satellite imagery indicated that the volcanic eruption was continuing, emitting an ash plume.
Unlike tsunamis triggered by earthquakes, where tectonic plates unload their force and a second tsunami is unlikely to recur, the volcano could again register a violent eruption that would create another ferocious tidal wave.
The kingdom of Tonga, located in the South Pacific within Polynesia, is commanded by King Tupou VI who was evacuated from the royal palace in Nuku’alofa and taken to a village far from the coast.
Tonga is the smallest country in the world, with an area of just 747 square kilometers, and is made up of more than 177 islands. It limits to the north with the French overseas territories of Wallis and Futuna, and with Samoa; to the northeast with American Samoa; to the east with the territories of Niue and the Cook Islands, of New Zealand; and to the west with Fiji. Its capital is Nukualofa, which is also the most populous city. (I)
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