Daily Mail published this video item, entitled “Tonga tsunami: Powerful moment tidal wave hits the Pacific island” – below is their description.
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This is the moment the South Pacific island of Tonga was hit by a tsunami after an underwater volcano erupted. The eruption triggered a 1.2-metre tsunami.
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The Daily Mail is a British daily middle-market newspaper and news website published in London in a tabloid format. Founded in 1896, it is the United Kingdom’s highest-circulated daily newspaper.
The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth’s oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean in the south and is bounded by the continents of Asia and Australia in the west and the Americas in the east
A volcano is a rupture in the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface. On Earth, volcanoes are most often found where tectonic plates are diverging or converging, and most are found underwater.
