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

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.

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 ...

The towering undersea volcano known as Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha‘apai had awakened ... It was one of the most powerful volcanic eruptions ever recorded. And it was a wake-up call.

James Garvin, chief scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, has explained the eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai submarine volcano was “500 times more powerful than the atomic bo ...

The eruption unleashed explosive forces that dwarfed the power of the Hiroshima atomic bomb, Nasa scientists have said. The Nasa Earth Observatory said earlier that the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai ...

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It noted that disturbances in the atmosphere were detected after the eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano around 1 p.m. on Jan. 15. The resulting air pressure waves reached near ...

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 ...

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