On the 14th of January, 2022, the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano began a gigantic eruption that would go on to peak in ferocity the next day. The uninhabited island volcano would quickly make ...

A 2022 satellite photo shows smoke rising from a caldera on Tofua, highlighting the "looming threat" of the volcanic island.

scientists were perplexed by what could have triggered the 2022 Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha'apai volcano eruption, which came to be considered one of the largest volcanic events in recorded history.

The towering undersea volcano known as Hunga ... villages in Tonga’s low-lying islands and crashing into shorelines as far away as Peru. It was one of the most powerful volcanic eruptions ...

More information: Jinyin Hu et al, A Composite Seismic Source Model for the First Major Event During the 2022 Hunga (Tonga) ...

The eruption unleashed explosive forces that dwarfed the power of the Hiroshima atomic bomb, Nasa scientists have said. The Nasa Earth Observatory said earlier that the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai ...

James Garvin, chief scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, has explained the eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai submarine volcano was “500 times more powerful than the atomic bo ...

According to local media, some 80,000 people in Tonga have been affected by the eruption and even two fatalities were reported. The activity of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano generated high ...

It noted that disturbances in the atmosphere were detected after the eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano around 1 p.m. on Jan. 15. The resulting air pressure waves reached near ...

While most big blasts cool the planet with a sun-dimming haze, the eruption of Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai in January 2022 blew the equivalent of 60,000 Olympic swimming pools of water into the ...

unlike the eruption of the neighboring volcano Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai in 2022. Satellites play a crucial role in monitoring these underwater volcanoes, offering a quick and safe method to observe ...

NICT via AP Mauians with ties to Tonga ... of the eruption, according to data from the National Weather Service. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association, the Hunga Tonga ...