The plume of ash and gas blotted out the sun. Tsunamis hurtled outward, engulfing villages in Tonga’s low-lying islands and crashing into shorelines as far away as Peru. It was one of the most ...

But all of this happens where humans can’t see ... The volcano, only 40 miles from the main island of Tonga, Tongatapu, also pushed out tsunamis towards the Atlantic, Caribbean and Mediterranean.

“The human condition is that we’re ... This method allows tsunamis to jump ocean basins. After the Tonga volcano eruption, Purkis detected a tsunami in Miami because of those atmospheric ...