Tsunamis hurtled outward, engulfing villages in Tonga’s low-lying islands and crashing into shorelines as far away as Peru. It was one of the most powerful volcanic eruptions ever recorded.

The Tonga underwater volcano that produced a spectacular eruption in January remains astonishingly intact. A New Zealand-led team has just finished mapping the flanks of the seamount, which many ...

Moments before one of the largest underwater volcanic eruptions smothered the Pacific island of Tonga, a strange signal happened. Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai erupted in January 2022, creating an ...

An underwater volcano near the South Pacific island nation of Tonga erupted on January 15. The eruption unleashed explosive forces that dwarfed the power of the Hiroshima atomic bomb, Nasa ...

Hunga Tonga volcano event occurred in the South ... and damaged buildings and other infrastructure including underwater ...

Shock waves triggered by a massive underwater volcanic eruption near Tonga on Jan. 15 were apparently responsible for tidal surges seen along Japan’s Pacific coastline, according to experts.

An curved arrow pointing right. An underwater volcanic eruption has contaminated water, destroyed homes, and cut off communication in Tonga. The scale of damage is still unknown. More from News An ...

A crowdsourced survey reveals how the sounds of the explosive event travelled around the world, and showcase the importance ...

Tsunami experts theorize that shock waves produced after a massive underwater volcanic eruption near Tonga on Jan. 15 caused the higher tidal levels seen along Japan's Pacific coastline.

The volcanic eruption that caused a tsunami to hit the island nation of Tonga has also severed the country's line of communication to the rest of the globe. An underwater volcano named Hunga Tonga ...

Sep. 30, 2024 — The Hunga Tonga underwater volcano was one of the largest volcanic eruptions in history, and now, two years later, new research has revealed its main ... Extinct Volcanoes a ...