Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai woke up again.
A new "big eruption" has been detected on the volcano near the Tonga Islands, which entered into activity three days ago, and which triggered a tsunami on Saturday in the Pacific, announced Monday (on the night of Sunday to Monday in France ) a monitoring station based in Australia.
This latest eruption was detected at 22:10 GMT (11:10 p.m. Paris time) on Sunday, according to an alert from the Australian Volcanic Ash Observation Center (VAAC) in Darwin.
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, based in Hawaii (USA), also said it had located large waves in the region.
According to him, “it could come from another explosion of the volcano in the Tonga islands.
There are no known earthquakes of significant size that generate such a wave.”
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The Pacific region is healing its wounds after the tsunami triggered by the previous big explosion on Saturday.
The eruption of the underwater volcano caused significant material damage in the Tonga Islands, where communications remained cut off on Monday.
Restoring the Internet in the archipelago could take "two weeks", estimated the director of networks on site.
The tsunami also killed two people in Peru.
Waves of 1.74 m were measured in Chanaral, Chile, and 1.20 m on the Pacific coast of Japan.
The eruption was so violent it was heard as far away as Alaska