#tonga

#tonga

The United States Geological Survey reported that the earthquake struck early Tuesday evening local time at a depth of about 237 km, which is significant as shallower earthquakes are felt more strongly at the surface.

For a while, Sam Vea had been smelling sulphur on the air only mildly infernal, like a distant sniff of hell, but sulphur nonetheless. Still, on the Saturday evening when the explosion happened, he sat up in fright. It sounded so near he thought some cataclysm had occurred right there, in his neighbourhood. The windows trembled. The curtains fell off. Vea peeked out of his house but saw nothing destroyed or on fire.