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2022 Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai eruption and tsunami

2022 CE · Tonga, Oceania · Disaster

2022 Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai eruption and tsunami
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In December 2021, an eruption began on Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai, a submarine volcano in the Tongan archipelago in the southern Pacific Ocean. The eruption reached a very large and powerful climax nearly four weeks later, on 15 January 2022.

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