Horrible : 50-foot waves hit the capital of Tonga after second awesome eruption Hunga tonga

Horrible 50-foot waves hit the capital of Tonga after second awesome eruption Hunga tonga The sparsely populated islets of Nomuka, Mango and Fonoifua were hit by waves almost 50 feet high, a Red Cross official said. Tonga, the Pacific nation that was struck by a powerful tsunami last weekend, consists of about 170 islands, some tiny, stretching out across 270,000 square miles, an area roughly the size of Texas. The vast majority are uninhabited. Seventy percent of Tonga’s roughly 100,000 people live on the biggest one, Tongatapu, a center for tourism and commerce, while the others are dispersed across about 35 islands — some home to just a few dozen families, appearing on world maps as little more than freckles of land in a seemingly endless sea. #Volcano #Eruption #HungaTonga #Wildweatherus #hurricane #weather