Look At This Volcano Erupt And Send Out A Huge Shockwave

You’ll want to put your headphones in for this.

Active volcano Mount Tavurvur, near the city of Rabaul, Papua New Guinea, began erupting on August 29.

Active volcano Mount Tavurvur, near the city of Rabaul, Papua New Guinea, began erupting on August 29 .

Mount Tavurvur destroyed the town of Rabaul when it erupted simultaneously with nearby Mount Vulcan in 1994.

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Now you can watch it happen in this incredible footage captured from a passenger boat.

Put your headphones in for the sonic boom around 26 seconds in.

This video was taken by Phil McNamara, a taxi driver from Queensland, Australia, reports the Brisbane Times.

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We saw it erupting and the ladies from Kokopo Beach Bungalows where we were staying said they could take us out on the boat to get a closer look.

I thought I might as well try and capture something you rarely get to see.

Here's where it happened.

Here's where it happened.

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