Pretty amazing that we were able to hear and feel the eruptions and also see the smoke at sunrise..all from thousands of kilometers away...!

its made a bit of a mess in Tonga with some of the low lying islands getting smashed by waves though with plenty of damage to homes and buildings near the shorelines and I imagine some of the food crops have been damaged.....

I climbed this volcano in Guatemala back over 25 years ago and it was pretty amazing to get close enough to see the lava flowing out and hear the lava rocks raining down close by which it did with small eruptions every minute or so......it looked like a lunar landscape..just so stark and barren looking...

I see they do westernized tours these days but back then it was just a bloke and a couple of guards with machetes to stop bandits attacking along the hike...

The last major eruption in 2018 supposedly killed about 2000 people and wiped out a few villages on the lower slopes...

https://oxexpeditions.com/tours/fuego-volcano-overnight-hike/

BTW the forecast keeps ramping up for the next few days ahead for some real monsoonal action...my creeks need a good flush out..