Suva, Fiji – International help is on its way to the south Pacific kingdom of Tonga, where a massive underwater volcano erupted on Saturday triggering a tsunami and leaving the island nation blanketed in ash.
The eruption at the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano was recorded as a 7.8-magnitude earthquake by the US Tsunami Warning System – the biggest since Pinatubo in the Philippines in 1991 – and triggered a tsunami for countries around the Pacific including Tonga and Peru, where two people are known to have drowned
