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Tonga’s underwater ‘volcano’ erupts, disappears island reveals satellite imagery at different times

behind “volcano” under the sea explodes inTonga Missing Island, China’s state-run Xinhua News Agency, has released satellite images from different time periods. which shows the geographic changes ofHunga Ha’apai island which is far from Nuku’alofa Tonga’s capital city to the north for about 65 km.

The report said the images were taken by the World View02 satellite. (Worldview02) Sentinel-1 (Sentinel-1) satellite receiver synthetic radio frequency (SAR) and satellite Gaofen-1 (Gaofen-1), which revealed that. some areas of Hanga-Haya Island is lost after the incident “volcano” violent undersea eruption

However “volcano” Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai, which lies beneath the sea near the island of Hanga-Haya. A devastating eruption occurred in the morning of January 14, 2022 and repeated eruption in the afternoon of January 15, 2022, causing masses of volcanic ash, gas and water vapor to rise into the sky. Measures heights up to 20 kilometers

(Recorded on 11 Apr 2021 and 4, 16 and 17 Jan 2022)

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