Tsunami in Tonga: Australia and New Zealand send planes to assess damage from underwater volcano eruption

Australia Y New Zealand they sent military planes to Tonga to assess the damage in this remote South Pacific country caused by Saturday’s violent eruption of the Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha’apai underwater volcano, which triggered a tsunami.

Since the eruption of Southern People “There is currently no volcanic activity recorded and the volcano does not expel ashes. The ash that persists around Queensland is from a previous eruption.”A spokeswoman for the Australian Bureau of Meteorology told EFE in an email.

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The authorities of Tonga, where the electricity service has already been restored but is still cut off in several parts of the territory, they have also sent Navy ships to the most remote areas of this archipelago of 169 islands to assess the damage left by the eruption of the volcano and the tsunami.

“In the coming hours and days we will have a clearer picture of the situation in Tonga, as well as the rest of the Blue Pacific territory,” The president of the Pacific Forum, Henry Puna, said in a statement on Monday.

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For her part, New Zealand legislator Jenny Salesa, of Tongan origin, said she spoke last night with a group of Methodist ministers from her country, who informed her that “one of the biggest problems they face is the damage to the aquifer system and in fact, not everyone has been able to protect some of the water tanks in which they collect rain.”

“There are 169 islands, 26 of them uninhabited, and we have no information on any island,” The legislator specified in an interview on Monday with Radio New Zealand, referring to the situation in the remote archipelago of the South Pacific, where the number of victims and victims is still unknown.

The thunderous eruption of the Southern People, an underwater volcano with a long history of activity and located between two islets -which are sometimes joined by the ash accumulated between them-, could be heard hundreds of kilometers away.

Other neighboring Pacific nations such as Fiji, Vanuatu and Samoa also recorded the onslaught of waves up to two meters high and, after canceling the alert, they still maintain an emergency warning over coastal areas.

Unlike tsunamis triggered by earthquakes, where tectonic plates unload their force and a second tsunami is unlikely, the volcano could again register a violent eruption that would create another ferocious tidal wave.

The explosion and ensuing tsunami produced strong waves and flooding as far away as Peru, where two women were killed by strong waves.

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