The week Tonga went silent

On January 15, the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai undersea volcano erupted in a blast 600 times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima, cutting Tonga off from the world. Journalist Marian Kupu speaks to Pacific Editor Kate Lyons about what it was like on the ground.

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