2022 Hunga Tonga eruption and tsunami

A very large eruption of Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai, a volcanic island of Tonga in the Pacific Ocean. It began on 14 January 2022. Hunga Tonga is  north of Tongatapu, the country's main island. 

The eruption caused tsunamis in Tonga, Fiji, American Samoa and parts of the Pacific Ocean. Warnings were issued in Fiji, Samoa, Vanuatu, New Zealand, Australia, Japan, Russia, the United States, Canada, Mexico, Chile and Ecuador. 

Damaging tsunami waves were reported in New Zealand, the United States, Chile and Peru. It is the largest volcanic eruption of the 21st century and the largest since the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo.

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Category:2022 disasters in Oceania
Category:January 2022 events
Category:21st-century tsunamis
Category:Tonga