Tonga volcano in the Pacific Ocean has erupted for the third time in just 4 days, jeopardizing the ability of observation flights that must assess damage to Chile, located on an island in the Pacific Ocean, as this eruption of the volcano is considered the largest eruption in 30 years, according to the newspaper. ABC Spanish.
Chile was ordered to evacuate most of its beaches before the possible arrival of a tsunami after the eruption of a volcano on the island of Tonga in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, with the exception of two southern regions, 4,000 km of the Chilean coast will have to be evacuated.
Residents of these areas received a text message asking, “Leave the beach area, due to a slight tsunami.” Only the southern regions are excluded, and since the morning, the country has recorded a variation in wave heights between 30 cm and one meter.
About 500 kilometers south of Santiago, the receding sea is being watched, revealing several meters of sand that normally remains under sea water.
The Chilean authorities have warned residents of the possibility of a tsunami on Easter Island and the Juan Fernandez archipelago, located more than three thousand kilometers west of Chile. The most important areas are Coquimbo (central-north), Los Rios and Los Lagos (south), which are the only ones in a state of “tsunami alert”, as ripple records exceeded one meter in height, Onemi indicated.
The authorities explained that they have activated the usual protocols in Chile after the earthquake, which could cause a tsunami.
Despite the eruption of the underwater volcano in Tonga, the behavior of waves and tides is “abnormal”. “It’s something that has never happened to us, that makes us take precautions quickly so that we can alert people,” Admiral Leonardo Chavez explained at a press conference.
On the other hand, some people said, in different kinds of media, that many such phenomena are signs of the end of the world.
