The eruption lasted six hours and caused massive destruction. It destroyed a number of villages and buried the famous silica hot springs known as the Pink and White Terraces. About 120 people, nearly all of them Māori, died.
The eruption lasted six hours and caused massive destruction. It destroyed a number of villages and buried the famous silica hot springs known as the Pink and White Terraces. About 120 people, nearly all of them Māori, died.
