Kevin Mackay was mowing his lawn in Wellington when the Hunga Tonga¨CHunga Ha¡¯apai volcano off Tonga upended everything scientists thought they knew about undersea volcanoes.
Such was the scale of the eruption that the news didn¡¯t reach Mackay via the internet or television.
He heard it.
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