A tsunami Advisory is now enforced for Samoa due to the Volcanic eruption in Tonga at 5:26 pm (local time) Saturday 15th January 2022.
This is according to a notice posted by the Samoa Meteorology office.
Meanwhile the American Samoa Weather Office has issued a warning for the US territory and the public are urged to evacuate to higher grounds immediately.
Meanwhile a tsunami marine warning issued for all of Tonga waters following the violent eruptions of underwater volcano Hunga-Tonga-Hunga-Ha'apai has been lifted.
Radio New Zealand reports that Hunga-Tonga-Hunga-Ha'apai erupted on Friday sending ash, steam and gas 20 kilometres into the air.
The volcano had been active from 20 December 2021 but was declared dormant on 11 January.
The head of Tonga Geological Services, Taaniela Kula, told RNZ Pacific that at 4am on Friday 15 January, an eruption was picked up on satellite.
Kula said the eruption on Friday was almost seven times bigger than the one on 20 December, bigger in terms of the radius of the plume that was scattered from the volcano, up to 250km away from the volcano radius.
He said his team visited the site on Friday to see up close, 2-3km away from the volcano, and the eruption of ash really shot up to over 1km into the atmosphere.
"That created an ash column of about 5km diameter just elevating ash up to 20kms into the atmosphere, that was really high, and the plume covered that 5km diameter of that island."
