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.

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 ...

has explained the eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai submarine volcano was “500 times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima,” equivalent to about “10 megatons - 10 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hawaii isn't the only series of islands formed from underwater volcanic eruptions. In 2014, a massive eruption formed the new island of Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai. But there's something about this ...

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 volcanic eruption of Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai back in 2021 might’ve been the largest in over a century, but that’s far from the only eruptive activity that Tonga has seen as of late.

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 explosion of the Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha’apai volcano was the latest in a series of dramatic eruptions. Earth imaging company Planet Labs PBC had watched the island in recent days after a new ...

The main airport runway has been cleared of ash spewed when the nearby Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha’apai volcano erupted. The explosion set off a Pacific-wide tsunami that smashed boats in New Zealand ...