Tag: Tonga

• Thursday, January 20th 2022 - 09:53 UTC

  Peru wants Repsol to pay damages for oil spill amid Tonga volcano eruption

  

  Peru's Foreign Ministry Wednesday filed a lawsuit against Spanish oil company Repsol for damages caused by a spill in Ventanilla, in the province Callao province.

• Thursday, January 20th 2022 - 09:52 UTC

  Tonga vulcano eruption 500 times stronger than Hiroshima bomb

  

  A NASA scientist has compared this weekend's volcanic eruption off Tonga with the atomic bomb dropped by the United States at the Japanese city of Hiroshima in 1945 and said the recent episode was “500 times” worse.

• Tuesday, January 18th 2022 - 09:49 UTC

  New major volcanic eruption detected in Tonga

  

  Two days after a first volcanic eruption not far from Tonga led to the death of two women in Peru, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center detected large waves in the area, which “could be from another explosion,” it was reported.

• Monday, January 17th 2022 - 09:45 UTC

  Tsunami leaves two dead in Peru

  

  Two people have died in Peru this weekend as a consequence of the eruption of a volcano in Tonga which resulted in a strong wave hitting the Nyalamp beach near the northwestern city of Lambayeque, it was reported.