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How the Hunga Tonga Eruption Destroyed Its Island and Volcano
The Hunga Tonga volcano eruption was one of the most powerful volcanic events in recent history, and it completely destroyed both the volcano itself and the island it once formed. This video provides ...
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Hunga Tonga volcanic eruption was so large its shockwave reached space, satellites orbiting Earth: report
The 2022 underwater Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha‘apai eruption, one of the most powerful in modern history, reached all the way into the atmosphere and beyond — shaking space as far up as satellites ...
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Tonga's volcano blasted enough water into the atmosphere to fill 58,000 Olympic swimming pools — potentially warming Earth
When Tonga's Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano violently erupted earlier this year, it spewed an unprecedented amount of water vapor into the atmosphere — and it will likely have noticeable ...
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Tonga's volcanic eruption could cause unusual weather for the rest of the decade, new study shows
Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai (Hunga Tonga for short) erupted on January 15 2022 in the Pacific Kingdom of Tonga. It created a tsunami which triggered warnings across the entire Pacific basin ...
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Tonga's strange volcanic eruption was even more massive than we knew
Now they're finally putting together the pieces. In December 2021, a volcano in the Kingdom of Tonga, known as Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai, began erupting in an event that culminated in an explosion ...
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Tonga volcano spews enough water to fill 58,000 Olympic-size swimming pools into stratosphere
The violent eruption of Tonga's Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano on Jan. 15, 2022, injected an unprecedented amount of water directly into the stratosphere - enough to fill more than 58,000 ...
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The day an underwater volcano almost wiped out a nation
Then, a roar from below the water. The towering undersea volcano known as Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha‘apai had awakened, and on a balmy afternoon in January 2022 it began blasting its insides into the ...
There's a humongous boulder on a cliff in Tonga. Now we know how it got there.
A massive boulder named Maka Lahi was recently found about 650 feet from the edge of a cliff in Tonga, and researchers ...
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How the Tonga Hunga volcano produced the most intense lightning ever seen
The eruption of Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai produced one of the most extreme lightning storms ever and it has given scientists a unique glimpse into the volcano's secrets. Peeking out of the South ...
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Tonga's volcano sent tons of water into the stratosphere. That could warm the Earth
The violent eruption of Tonga's Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano injected an unprecedented amount of water directly into the stratosphere — and the vapor will stay there for years, likely ...
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Hunga Tonga undersea volcano eruption likely to make ozone hole larger in coming years
The huge amount of water injected by the cataclysmic Hunga Tonga volcanic eruption into Earth's atmosphere last year will temporarily affect the protective ozone layer. The Hunga Tonga volcanic ...
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Tonga eruption resulted in few casualties, isn't most deadly volcano | Fact check
The claim: 2022 Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcanic eruption was most deadly 'of all time' A Dec. 23, 2023, Facebook video (direct link, archive link) shows a compilation of clips including ...