Located close to the island nation of Tonga, theHunga-Tonga-Hunga-Haapaivolcano’s violent eruption was captured on numerous satellites.
If you aren’t familiar, Tonga is a country composed of 170 islands in the South Pacific.
Social media posts showed people fleeing high waves on the island on Saturday, as roads and properties flooded.
Photo:Tonga Meteorological Services
From left to right: Korea’s GK-2A, Japan’s Himawari-8 and the US GOES-17.
However, this particular explosion has had far-reaching implications.
A large cloud of volcanic ash has slowly been drifting across the South Pacific, reaching Australia on Monday.
Nine-foot waves were reported in northern Japan, while tsunami waves also reached California, Hawaii, and Alaska.
Watch more incredible satellite imagery of the Hunga-Tonga-Hunga-Haapai volcano eruption.
What it would look like from space if the Honga#Tonga-hunga Haapai volcano erupted somewhere in Western Europe.
