When Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai, an underwater volcano near Tonga in the South Pacific Ocean, erupted in 2022, scientists ...

When Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai ... ozone on the interaction between solar radiation and the Earth’s heat. This detailed analysis helped them determine how the volcanic eruption changed the movement of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ... to run chemical analysis on rock ...

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.

More information: Jinyin Hu et al, A Composite Seismic Source Model for the First Major Event During the 2022 Hunga (Tonga) Volcanic Eruption, Geophysical Research Letters (2024). DOI: 10.1029 ...

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 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 ...

This stunning aerial shot highlights the "looming threat" of a volcanic island in Tonga, which could violently explode in the future. The island also has a colorful origin story in Tongan ...

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 ...

The eruption of undersea volcano Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai, and a tsunami wave, blanketed Tonga's islands in volcanic ash. It's posing a serious health risk and contaminating water supplies.