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Signal heard minutes before most powerful eruption of our time

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Hunga Tonga- Hunga Ha'apai volcano blew in the South Pacific on January 15, 2022 .

It let out the energetic equivalent of 61 megatons of TNT , or a magnitude 8.4 earthquake.

A 'seismic wave' created by a weak part of the ocean floor collapsed near the volcano.

This sent vibrations traveling through the seafloor, which were picked up by distant monitoring stations 15 minutes before.

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