![]() Two people drowned in Peru when a 2 m (6 ft 7 in) wave struck the coast. At least three people were killed, some were injured, and some remain possibly missing in Tonga from tsunami waves up to 15 m (49 ft) high. The eruption caused tsunamis in Tonga, Fiji, American Samoa, Vanuatu, and along the Pacific rim, including damaging tsunamis in New Zealand, Japan, the United States, the Russian Far East, Chile, and Peru. Hunga Tonga is 65 km (40 mi) north of Tongatapu, the country's main island, and is part of the highly active Tonga– Kermadec Islands volcanic arc, a subduction zone extending from New Zealand north-northeast to Fiji. The eruption reached a powerful climax on the next day, 15 January. On 14 January 2022, a very large eruption on Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai, an uninhabited volcanic island and submarine volcano of the Tongan archipelago in the southern Pacific Ocean, began.
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