Aerial images show the devastation in Tonga left behind after a violent offshore volcanic eruption sparked a tsunami and clouded the sky with ash. Communications with the island nation have largely ...

When the underwater Hunga Tonga volcano erupted in the South Pacific, it blasted an "unprecedented" amount of aerosols and water vapor into Earth's atmosphere. Now, scientists are saying the plume was ...

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The eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai submarine volcano in January 2022 was one of the most explosive volcanic events of the modern era, a new study has confirmed. Led by researchers from the ...

When the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano in the Pacific Ocean erupted earlier this year, the event was one for the record books — in several surprising ways. The January 15 eruption was so explosive ...

The ancient Tongan phrase for tsunami is peau kula, which translates to red wave. The deeper meaning of the words became clear to Taaniela Kula, the head of Tonga’s Geological Services, when he ...

A volcanic eruption in the South Pacific was so powerful that its shockwaves left the planet and reached space, new research shows. The 2022 underwater Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha‘apai eruption, one of the ...

On January 13, 2022, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on board NASA’s Aqua satellite acquired a true-color image of the start of something big–a massive volcanic eruption on ...

In Roland Emmerich’s 2012 (streaming now on Peacock!) the world runs head on into a catastrophic apocalypse, complete with earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanoes. In the real world, we survived the ...

Two years ago, the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano blew its top, destroying the island of the same name, forcing mass evacuations, covering Tonga in ash, and causing several deaths. Predicting these ...