Volcano eruption near Tonga was so powerful, Alaskans could hear it from 6,000 miles away
The Bristol Bay Times - Serving Dillingham, Naknek, King Salmon and Southwest villages
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The Bristol Bay Times - Serving Dillingham, Naknek, King Salmon and Southwest villages
The Bristol Bay Times - Serving Dillingham, Naknek, King Salmon and Southwest villages
Communities across the West Coast woke up Saturday morning to tsunami advisory alerts. An underwater volcano near the Kingdom of Tonga had erupted and sent waves thousands of miles across the ocean.Waves of up to about three feet reached parts of Alaska by Saturday morning. But hours before those waves arrived, sounds from the blast reached the homes of many Alaskans — all the way from Juneau to the Aleutians.