A satellite image shows the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano before its main eruption, in Hunga-Tonga-Hunga-Ha’apai, Tonga, January 6, 2022. via REUTERS.

A team of researchers has been exploring the climate impact of the massive 2022 Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai (Hunga Tonga volcano) eruption, which is said to have even caused an extraordinarily ...

The eruption of Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai produced one of the most extreme lightning storms ever and it has given scientists a unique glimpse into the volcano's secrets. Peeking out of the South ...

The Hunga Tonga volcano eruption was one of the most powerful volcanic events in recent history, and it completely destroyed both the volcano itself and the island it once formed. This video ...

The eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano in the Pacific Ocean earlier this year was one for the record books — in several surprising ways. Skip to content.

A Dec. 23, 2023, Facebook video (direct link, archive link) shows a compilation of clips including satellite images of the 2022 eruption of Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai, a submerged volcano in the ...

First came the burnt-match smell of hot sulfur. 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 ...

Almost two years after a humongous eruption rocked Tonga's Hunga volcano in the southwest Pacific Ocean, scientists have finally mapped the huge magma plumbing system that gave birth to the record ...

When the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano erupted on Jan. 15, it sent the equivalent of more than 58,000 Olympic-size swimming pools' worth of water into the stratosphere, researchers say.

He told the AGU meeting that Hunga-Tonga's eruption plume produced 400,000 lightning events on 15 January. "We were getting lightning rates of up to 5,000 to 5,200 events per minute.

The eruption of Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai produced one of the most extreme lightning storms ever and it has given scientists a unique glimpse into the volcano's secrets.