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Tsunamis aren’t just bigger-than-average waves. Triggered by undersea earthquakes or volcanic eruptions like the one in Tonga, they are fast, massive and potentially destructive. Here’s why.

Five days after the volcanic eruption, Tonga remains largely beyond contact with the outside world except for satellite phone services. Falling volcanic ash has contaminated local fresh water, which relies on rainwater collection tanks and the tsunami triggered by the eruption also damaged residents houses, the Global Times learned from embassy and local sources on Wednesday.

According to NASA researchers, the estimated power of the massive volcanic eruption in Tonga was equivalent to 10 megatons of TNT.

Tonga's small outer islands suffered extensive damage from a massive volcanic eruption and tsunami, with an entire village destroyed and many buildings missing, a Tongan diplomat said on Tuesday, raising fears of more deaths and injuries.

In 1883, a volcano on the island of Krakatoa, which sits between Java and Sumatra in Indonesia, exploded. That explosion was heard by people in over 50 different geographical locations, spanning an area covering a thirteenth of the planet.

UNITED NATIONS - Relief efforts following the Tonga volcano eruption face the challenge of severed communications, falling ash closing the major airport and strict anti-COVID measures, UN officials said on Tuesday.

Tonga's small outer islands suffered extensive damage from a massive volcanic eruption and tsunami, with an entire village destroyed and many buildings missing, a Tongan diplomat said on Tuesday, raising fears of more deaths and injuries.

The volcanic eruption in Tonga could weaken the intensity of the summer monsoon in East Asia in the following year and thus cause the southward shift of China’s summer rain belts, according to the China Meteorological Administration.

UNITED NATIONS - Relief efforts following the Tonga volcano eruption face the challenge of severed communications, falling ash closing the major airport and strict anti-COVID measures, UN officials said on Tuesday.

The government of Tonga said it will give priority to international calls and emails as it works to bring its internet back online.