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 ...

The government called the eruption an "unprecedented disaster." The Hunga-Tonga-Hunga-Ha'apai volcanic eruption last week caused widespread damage to the Pacific Island nation of Tonga, with a huge ...

A tsunami triggered by a volcanic eruption decimated some islands of the South Pacific nation of Tonga. The crushing effect on land and infrastructure can be seen from outer space. Three of Tonga’s ...

When the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano blasted gas and ash 30 miles into the atmosphere, it definitely made waves. The question is, what kind? The eruption may have been the largest in a half ...

The 2022 eruption of the Hunga Tonga volcano may have been triggered by the release of underground energy totaling as much as five nukes exploding all at once, scientists have found. Until this ...

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 ...

When Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai, an underwater volcano near Tonga in the South Pacific Ocean, erupted in 2022, scientists expected that it would spew enough water vapor into the stratosphere to push ...

An advisory was previously issued for the entire U.S. West Coast and Alaska. The National Tsunami Warning Center issued a tsunami advisory for American Samoa after another undersea volcano eruption ...

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