The submarine volcanic eruption in the Pacific sparked panic in the Tonga islands on Saturday.
Abnormal waves, slight flooding in some coastal towns and the rescue of two dozen people were reported this Saturday on the Peruvian coast in the Pacific Ocean, after the underwater volcanic eruption in the Tonga Islands.
The Peruvian Civil Defense Institute (Indeci) indicated in a statement that “as a result of the volcanic eruption” recorded in Tonga, “waves were produced on the coast of the department of Ica”, about 250 kilometers south of Lima on the coast. Peruvian.
Indeci itself also communicated through its account on the social network Twitter that “in the event of abnormal waves in different areas of the Peruvian coast, sports and recreational activities should be avoided during the wave period, as well as camps near beach areas. ”.
Although the entity reported that no damage of any kind was reported, local authorities in Paracas, in Ica, reported the rise in sea level during the afternoon of this Saturday.
This caused, according to what Mayor Juan Mendoza reported to the Radio Programas del Perú radio station, damage to 38 commercial premises that suffered flooding.
Likewise, the National Police of Peru (PNP) reported on Twitter its troops “rescued 23 people after the first reports of abnormal waves on the Peruvian coast,” without specifying under what circumstances or conditions.
The Peruvian Navy had informed at noon this Saturday, in a message on Twitter, that “the volcanic eruption in Nukualofa – Tonga, this DOES NOT GENERATE TSUNAMI ON THE PERUVIAN COAST”, for which a call was made to “maintain the calm”.
However, during Saturday night, dozens of PNP agents and crews of municipal workers from Paracas began the construction of sand dykes along the Paracas bay, as a resource to contain the advance of the waves.
The submarine volcanic eruption in the Pacific sparked panic in the Tonga islands on Saturday, with a tsunami that caused waves of 1.20 meters in Japan and generated alerts on the west coast of the United States, Chile and Ecuador. (I)
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