Tonga volcanic eruption heard hours later in Wattle Flat, Billywillinga

Sam Bolt
Updated January 18 2022 - 5:25pm, first published 5:00pm
LOUD SOUND: Keen astronomers Niall MacNeill [left] and Ray Pickard [right] observed a unusually loud noise at 6.10pm Saturday from their properties at Wattle Flat and Billywillinga respectively, of which they now believe to be the sound wave from the major volcanic eruption in Tonga earlier that day.
LOUD SOUND: Keen astronomers Niall MacNeill [left] and Ray Pickard [right] observed a unusually loud noise at 6.10pm Saturday from their properties at Wattle Flat and Billywillinga respectively, of which they now believe to be the sound wave from the major volcanic eruption in Tonga earlier that day.

Having occurred nearly 4000 kilometres away, you'd be forgiven for believing it wouldn't be possible to hear the eruption of a Tongan volcano in the Bathurst region.

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Sam Bolt

Sam Bolt

Writer/Journalist at Western Advocate

"I'm not in the business of telling people what to do. I'm much more in the business of describing things, situations and stuff like that and leaving them out there, and you can make up your minds about them." -Nick Cave

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