The island also has a colorful origin story in Tongan mythology, which involves quarreling gods, a stolen mountain and a ...

Tsunamis hurtled outward, engulfing 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 ever recorded.

It released a huge amount of energy, triggering a tsunami that reached incredible ... amount of aerosols and water vapor ...

An approximately 2-hectopascal increase in atmospheric pressure from Tonga toward Japan ... said it did not expect tsunami to hit Japan following the volcanic eruption. But it issued a tsunami ...

A new “major” volcanic eruption was detected in Tonga, where some 80,000 people are at risk of suffering the consequences of the one that caused a tsunami in the Pacific two days ago, 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.

Meanwhile, from the Directorate of Hydrography and Navigation of the Peruvian Navy, they indicated that the volcanic eruption in Tonga “does not generate a tsunami on the Peruvian coast” and ...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has expressed deep concern over the reports of a tsunami, affecting Tonga following the eruption of an undersea volcano near the Pacific nation. In a statement, ...

This method allows tsunamis to jump ocean basins. After the Tonga volcano eruption, Purkis detected a tsunami in Miami because of those atmospheric pressure waves — but it was minuscule ...

The force of the Jan. 15 eruption of an undersea volcano near the Tonga islands in the South Pacific ... and gas plume reached the stratosphere. Tsunami were reported 8,000 km away in Japan ...