The submarine eruption of Tonga's Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano last year reportedly disrupted satellite signals halfway around the world, according to scientists.

Hunga Tonga-Hunga Haʻapai is a volcanic island which is approximately 30 km south-southeast of Fonuafoʻou island in Tonga. The volcano lies on the heavily active Tonga-Kermadec Islands volcanic arc.

Tonga’s volcano eruption and tsunami explained in maps and charts. There are some 1,350 potentially active volcanoes around the world, many located around the Pacific ‘Ring of Fire’.

Where is Tonga located? Tonga is a Polynesian country of more than 170 South Pacific islands and home to about 100,000 people. It lies about 500 miles east of Fiji and 1,500 miles from New Zealand.

SYDNEY, Australia — When the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano erupted with colossal force at 5:10 p.m. local time on Saturday, Jan. 15, Soane Francis Siua, a Catholic seminary student in Fiji ...

The eruption of Hunga-Tonga-Hunga-Ha’apai triggered tsunami waves in Tonga and other places around the world. The eruption of an underwater volcano off Tonga, which triggered a tsunami warning ...

Over the weekend, the archipelago of Tonga shook the world, literally. That evening, the Hunga-Tonga-Hunga-Ha'apai volcano, located about 40 miles from Tonga itself, erupted.

The volcano, known as Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai, is located about 40 miles away from Tonga’s main island of Tongatapu, about 3,100 miles southwest of Hawaii and 1,500 miles north of New Zealand.

When the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano erupted underwater in January, it created a plume of ash and water that broke through the third layer of Earth’s atmosphere.

THE ENTIRE Pacific island of Tonga is under a tsunami warning after 'one of the most violent volcano eruptions' was captured on terrifying satellite imagery.

In 2015, the same undersea volcano erupted and formed the Hunga Tonga island, although according to satellite imagery company Planet Labs, scientists thought it would erode away within months ...

Tonga’s undersea cable was severed by a huge volcanic eruption on Saturday night, and the country now faces weeks of digital darkness as a repair ship prepares to make its way from Papua New Guinea.