Tonga Tsunami

[Onelife]

Looking at these pictures, especially the before/after slides their must be a vey high death toll I would have thought?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... th-Pacific.

Scroll to bottom to see slides

[Mervyn and Trish]

It looks horrendous. The dreadful power of nature.

[Kendhni]

Last story I had read only mentioned 3 deaths ... I suspect it will rise from there though.

I know this was a result of a volcano, but with climate change I wonder how many of these lovely Pacific Islands/atolls will survive this century

[Onelife]

Hi Ken, I’m not sure what the climate time scale will be, but due to Tonga’s island’s location they are always going to be vulnerable, not least because they have little or no means to hold back the water, whether that be from cyclones or rising sea levels. Little by little each island will become uninhabitable, the occupants of which will move to higher ground until such time that also gets swamped.

In thousands of years’ time these islands will become habitable again, the world will have learnt no lessons and will again embark on the same destructive path as their predecessors did.

[Stephen]

Terrible .