Other eyewitnesses to the weekend catastrophe have described families running for their lives amid the thunderous noise of the eruption.
"The first explosion .. .our ears were ringing and we couldn't even hear each other, so all we do is pointing to our families to get up, get ready to run," local journalist Marian Kupu told Reuters.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/01/20/tongan-hailed-aquaman-surviving-tsunami-27-hours-sea/
Can ears ring after a volcano or is that just a big bomb?
Side note, this is a beautiful story of a hero's love for his son and his general bad assery.