Undersea Volcano Erupts Off Tonga Coast

NUKU'ALOFA, Tonga (March 18) - An undersea volcano erupted off the coast of Tonga shooting clouds of smoke, steam and ash thousands of feet into the sky above the South Pacific ocean, officials said Wednesday.

Spectacular columns spewed out of the sea about 6 miles from the southwest coast off the main island of Tongatapu — an area where up to 36 undersea volcanoes are clustered, said Tonga's geological service head, Keleti Mafi.

"It's a very significant eruption, on quite a large scale," he told The Associated Press.

There was no sign the offshore eruption posed any danger to residents, he said, with trade winds blowing gas and steam away from the island.

Residents said the steam and ash column first appeared on Monday morning, after a series of sharp earthquakes were felt in the capital, Nuku'alofa.

"This is not unusual for this area and we expect this to happen here at any time," Mafi said, adding that a similar eruption took place there in 2002.

A Defense Force boat was expected to travel to the region soon to check the area.

It was likely the underwater eruption was taking place to the west of the low-lying twin volcanic islands of Hunga Tonga and Hunga Ha'apai, within sight of Nuku'alofa.

Large amounts of pumice thrown up by the erupting volcano would likely clog beaches on the southern coast of nearby Fiji islands within a short time, he said.

Tonga, a 170-island archipelago about halfway between Australia and Tahiti, is part of the Pacific "ring of fire" — an arc of earthquake and volcanic zones stretching from Chile in South America through Alaska and down through Vanuatu to Tonga.

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This eruption fits right in with all of the other recent volcanic activity around the globe. It's almost like they are synching up. Pay attention.

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After a "polar shift", only areas in "black" are above sea level

-Bobby Sharpe's "Global Peoplz Newz": Russian Volcano Awakens After 3500 Years THIS IS NOT 1999 Y2K,,,THAT WAS A CONTROL TEST,,,,,,THIS IS REALITY,, an there's a lot more that's gonna wake up. Volcanoes that is. Now you see, that means earthquakes. Remember Fred Sanford always saying "the big one is coming". You must be out of the way, up very high. Water and shifting, collapsing, rising earth. The water can be handled by height and being above it, but, I cannot tell where and what will shake rattle and roll into the water. They say above sea level, but land above sea level will drop below sea level in the shift. Some say they know where to be by being up high. That is the only survivable place, unless, land above sea level earthquakes an splits in the shift. AND IT WILL IN SOME PLACES EVEN UP HIGH. A shift formed what we know as the carribean islands. That is the Gulf of Mexico land broken up. So it wasn't always a gulf. That's why you see Florida peninsula across from texas because the land that was there is the islands now. All continents that were once connected are seperated by events like what is coming up. To let you know how severe and hardcore/powerful this polar shift is: The planet is not human. A bi polar human must go to a doctor for treatment. But, a bi polar planet, devine law /mother nature/earth /gaia/will heal herself by any means necessary by devine law for the good of the planet. Law of mother nature is unforgiving, the new Keanu Reeves movie is a good watch people tell me. The good of the planet is priority over the good of the people just living on it. He tells them, he came for the planet, not them. If they live, then the planet dies. Thats pretty much the sum of things with this polar shift. Movies are edutainment, "FASTMAN" PEEPED THE KEANU REEVES MOVIE AN DECODED IT AS SUCH.-

Thank YOU for the update and insight T. Ali Bey. As I have said before, "the more YOU know, the longer YOU live". Wake up people. If YOU are having a problem dealing with what is coming to pass, let me make it real easy for YOU.

If YOU acknowledge, that after 4 billion years here, the planet Earth does go through cyclical changes, ie. cooling, warming, shifting etc., then ask yourself one simple question. "Why cant the planet be going through it's cycles while "we" are here"? The answer is, "it can, it will, it is"!

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