Tonga - Hunga-Tonga-Hunga-Ha'apai Volcanic Eruption and Tsunami

[investikater]

Sorry I don't know where to put this?

Be prepared for possibly many missing persons reported in the coming days.

Communications are currently cut off.

Surveillance flights from Australia and New Zealand are flying now.

 

[YaYa_521]

Tonga calls for ‘immediate aid’ after volcanic eruption, tsunami

Volcanic eruptions have significant impact on Tonga

How the volcano off Tonga erupted and caused tsunami warnings

 

[CP244]

Sorry I don't know where to put this?

Be prepared for possibly many missing persons reported in the coming days.

Communications are currently cut off.

Surveillance flights from Australia and New Zealand are flying now.

They are trying to fly but the heavy ash is preventing them.

 

[investikater]

reports the Australian flight took off from Ipswich / Brisbane
and the New Zealand flight from Auckland

Tsunami-hit Tonga: Surveillance flights sent to assess damage - as ash cloud covers island

ADF sends planes to check for damage after huge Tonga eruption

Aus, NZ flights to assess Tonga damage

also HMAS Adelaide currently in Sydney is being deployed to Brisbane to be loaded with aid supplies

and there is some minimal communication

 

[CP244]

I heard an interview with a New Zealand man who lives on one of the islands and was in New Zealand for the holidays when it hit. He has been in touch with people on an island north of his but cannot get contact from any one on his island. He had seen a satellite pic which showed his island was 50% inundated. He was very worried.

 

[MsMiniSleuth]

We have a British charity worker unaccounted for.

Fears grow for British charity worker, 50, who was swept away by historic Tonga tsunami | Daily Mail Online

 

[investikater]

here we go...

 

[Laughing]

 

[TexLil]

Brother of Briton missing in Tonga eruption believes she is dead Tonga eruption: Missing Brit's brother believes she is dead | Daily Mail Online

 

[investikater]

^ it's been updated. they found her body. and one dog found alive.

Her name was Angela Glover

 

[investikater]

does Tonga not have a tsunami alarm airhorn system? or sms alert system? they only had 20 minutes warning but that was something at least.

 

[MsMiniSleuth]

^ it's been updated. they found her body. and one dog found alive.

Her name was Angela Glover

One alive. That in itself is miraculous, but the poor woman and the other four. Just terrible.

 

[JerseyGirl]

Impacts of volcanic eruption off Tonga were felt across Hawaii

Tonga assesses damage after tsunami, ash blankets island

 

[investikater]

Tonga volcano eruption: Satellite images emerge of islands covered in ash, distress signals detected

 

[Jax49]

Images and patchy communications reveal devastation in Tonga after tsunami unleashed by massive volcano eruption

A volcano that exploded on the Pacific island nation of Tonga has almost disappeared from view, new images revealed Tuesday, with swathes of the island nation smothered in grey ash and dust or damaged by a tsunami. Tonga has been virtually cut off from the rest of the world since Saturday's volcanic blast — one of the largest recorded in decades.