Kevin Mackay was mowing his lawn in Wellington when the Hunga Tonga–Hunga 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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