Don’t look at the sea?
A tsunami that put in alert the whole Pacific was not officially warned in Peru – it caused a chain of disasters. By Nelson Peñaherrera Castillo FONOAFO’OU, Tonga – On Saturday, January 15 th , 2020, 17:27 Tonga Kingdom Time (0527 GMT), the Hunga Tonga -Hunga Ha’apai Volcano erupted twice in the 1-day lapse causing its structure to collapse into the sea, affecting immediately that South Pacific islander nation. The column of wáter steam, ashes, and gases got to rise up to 15 miles toward the atmosphere. It was so massive that the Japanese satellite Himawari-8 could capture the cloud caused by the blast as well as the shock waves it generated, even. According to KNTV station, operating in san Francisco Bay Area, California, the blast power was such as it altered the atmospheric pressure values across the Pacific Ocean – wee are talking about 5318 miles length between that Polinesia sector and that U.S. West Coast portion. The volcanic blast behav