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.

First Person - RNZ Pacific reporter, Iliesa Tora, reflects on the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcanic eruption, saying people ...

James Garvin, chief scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, has explained the eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai submarine volcano was “500 times more powerful than the atomic bo ...

Image courtesy of NOAA and the National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS). Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha’apai is a submarine volcano in the South Pacific ocean. On 20 December ...

An underwater volcano that can be found around 300-miles off the coast of Oregon in the US could erupt by the end of 2025. Axial Seamount is the most active submarine volcano in the northeast Pacific.

The climate-altering eruption came from the Zavaritskii volcano on an uninhabited island in the Pacific that once hosted a ...

Although submarine volcanoes generally pose a lesser risk to human communities compared to terrestrial volcanoes, their eruptions can have significant consequences. The eruption of Hunga Tonga ...

However, Hunga Tonga's eruption presented a unique scenario: As a submarine volcano, it introduced an unprecedented amount of water vapor into the stratosphere, increasing total stratospheric ...

ABSTRACT: The Tonga submarine event refers to the volcanic eruption near the Tonga islands in the South Pacific Ocean, which produced a large plume possibly reaching the stratosphere and mesosphere.

Online activity is starting to trickle out of the island nation of Tonga after a massive volcanic eruption and tsunami Saturday left ... internet service providers previously relied on a single ...

Our family, and the rest of Tongatapu, Ha'api and 'Eua, had observed volcanic eruptions from Hunga Tonga - Hunga Ha'apai site since early December 2021. They were similar to the submarine ...