The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Hunga_Tonga–Hunga_Haʻapai_eruption_and_tsunami" id="mwAZg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="2022 Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai eruption and tsunami">Hunga Tonga-Hunga Haʻapai volcano erupts</a>, cutting off communications with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonga" id="mwAZk" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Tonga">Tonga</a> and causing a tsunami across the Pacific.<sup about="#mwt147" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-26"}}' id="cite_ref-26" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./January_15#cite_note-26" id="mwAZo" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 26;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAZs">[26]</span></a></sup>
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