After the devastating underwater volcanic eruption and subsequent tsunami hit the Kingdom of Tonga, 16-year-old Quinn Boyle from the Bay of Plenty in New Zealand thought he could help the Tongan people who were impacted by the dual disaster in his own way. Boyle is raising money through his attempt of a 23 km crossing of the Cook Strait in New Zealand.
Satellite photo above shows the underwater volcano Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai eruption in an image from a weather satellite courtesy of NOAA/Cira/Rammb. In what was described by the Tonga government as an unprecedented disaster for the island nation, the eruption of the underwater volcano (formally known as Hunga Tonga-Hunga-Haʻapai) caused myriad havoc
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