The Hunga Tonga volcano eruption was one of the most powerful volcanic events in recent history, and it completely destroyed ...

A massive boulder named Maka Lahi was recently found about 650 feet from the edge of a cliff in Tonga, and researchers ...

The uninhabited volcanic island of Hunga-Tonga-Hunga-Ha’apai all but disappeared following the blast, according to satellite images from around 12 hours later. The Pacific archipelago was ...

Tonga faces some of the highest levels of disaster risk globally, with events like the eruption of Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai and frequent cyclones disrupting lives, livelihoods, and infrastructure.

The Nasa Earth Observatory said earlier that the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano spewed debris as high as 40km into the atmosphere during the eruption that triggered huge tsunami waves.

RIO DE JANEIRO -- Tonga is mostly an overlooked country at the Olympics, with a rather small delegation and just one medal in its entire history, a silver in 1996. But it provided perhaps the ...

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 ...

St. Helens erupted in 1980, 57 people died; and when the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Haʻapai volcano in Tonga’s archipelago exploded in 2022 — a once-in-a-century event — the resulting tsunami ...

USGS said the quake hit at a depth of 243km around 137km from the closest town of Neiafu Sydney: A magnitude 6.4 earthquake rattled Tonga on Wednesday, the United States Geological Survey said ...

The rock called Maka Lahi is important in the mythology of the people of Tonga, and scientists have worked out part of its origin story. By Katherine Kornei Just a stone’s throw from the ocean ...

A magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck the Pacific island nation of Tonga, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said on Wednesday. The earthquake of magnitude 6.4 hit Tonga Islands at 0415GMT with a depth ...