Scientists at the US space agency NASA have said that the eruption of a volcano on the Pacific island of Tonga had left the Hiroshima nuclear explosion far behind.
According to the AFP news agency, Tongan residents described the blast as "shocking to our minds."
According to NASA scientists observing the Earth, the wreckage of the Tonga volcano that erupted on January 15 this month went up to 40 km in the air while tsunami waves rose in the sea.
NASA scientist Jim Garron said in a statement that "the amount of energy released from the blast was estimated to be five to 30 megatons of explosives."
According to NASA, the eruption was 100 times greater than the American atomic bomb dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
The atomic bomb dropped in August 1945 contained an estimated 15 kilotons of explosives.
According to NASA, the eruption of the volcano has 'destroyed' an area of 65 km of this Pacific island.
It is thought that the tsunami waves that erupted after the eruption on the Pacific island hit the shores of many countries.
According to scientists, the sound of this explosion was heard from a distance of ten thousand kilometers.
