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

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 ...

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 ...

This speck rose from the sea in January between two established uninhabited volcanic islands - Hunga Tonga and Hunga Ha'apai - joining them together into one larger land mass. The island was ...

The activity of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano generated high waves and alerts in several Pacific countries. A new “major” volcanic eruption was detected in Tonga, where some 80,000 ...

Meanwhile, Chile and Ecuador did issued tsunami warnings. On Saturday, January 15, the submarine volcano Hunga-Tonga-Hunga-Ha'apai, which is located off Tonga, erupted and caused a tsunami warning ...

The number of big eruptions centuries ago ejecting water, like the Tongan volcano, is a mystery because it cannot be spotted in the ice. Before it erupted, the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai was ...

The eruptions of Home Reef, although spectacular, have had little impact on local populations, unlike the eruption of the neighboring volcano Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai in 2022. Satellites play a ...

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.

The explosion of the Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha’apai volcano, about 64 kilometers north of Nuku’alofa, was the latest in a series of dramatic eruptions. In late 2014 and early 2015, eruptions ...

There are around 36 undersea volcanoes near Tonga. The Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano erupted in 2022 causing a huge plume of ash, steam and gas to rise from the ocean. The eruption from Hunga ...

Tonga is still feeling some lingering impacts from the massive Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai underwater volcano which erupted ... The Australian government has twin aims here. The first is to bolster ...