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

Key takeawaysA new UCLA-led study shows that the 2022 eruption of underwater volcano Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai did not warm ...

When Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai, an underwater volcano near Tonga in the South Pacific ... Sulfate aerosols lead to cooling in the atmosphere. Past volcanic eruptions, such as that of nearby Pinatubo ...

In Tonga, massive underwater volcanic eruption has flooded Pacific coastlines from Japan to the United States. In a statement, the US National Tsunami Warning Center warned that California, Oregon, ...

Tsunamis can travel thousands of kilometres across the ocean after an earthquake, volcanic eruption, or landslide ...

It could completely reshape how we study, track, and predict underwater volcanoes. It might also help us prepare for more dangerous eruptions, like the one at Hunga Tonga in 2022. That blast sent ...

An explosive eruption of an underwater volcano can also trigger a far-reaching tsunami. One stark example was the January 2022 eruption of Hunga-Tonga Hunga Ha’apai in the southwestern Pacific ...

The island, named Tofua, consists mainly of a massive ring-like caldera left by an explosive eruption millions of years ... region's most famous inhabitants is the underwater Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha'apai ...

Underwater waves could also be used to reduce the risks of tsunamis and to improve their early warning systems.

On the other hand, their underwater counterparts are sound waves produced by phenomena like earthquakes or volcanic eruptions, sometimes thousands ... took place at an oceanic scale during the 2022 ...