A new study shows that ground water levels responded to forcing by barometric pressure pulses from the 2022 Hunga Tonga-Hunga ...

A plume rises over Tonga after the underwater volcano Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai erupted in this GeoColor satellite image taken by Himawari-8 on Jan. 14, 2022.

The eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano in Tonga in January 2022 captured the world’s attention, not only because of its immense power but also for its potential to impact the ...

Because it was an underwater volcano, Hunga Tonga produced little smoke, but a lot of water vapor: 100–150 million tons, or the equivalent of 60,000 Olympic swimming pools.

Hunga Tonga kicked off the largest underwater explosion recorded by modern science on Dec. 20, 2021. For days, the submarine volcano released sulfur dioxide, ash, and steam several miles into the air.

Last year's volcanic eruption in the Pacific caused the fastest underwater flows ever recorded. The atmospheric disturbance from last year's immense eruption in Tonga reached far and wide. From a ...

Satellite images captured the volcanic eruption on Saturday as the explosion sent plumes of smoke into the air and about 12 miles above sea level. The sky over Tonga was darkened by the ash.

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 ...

Hunga Tonga kicked off the largest underwater explosion recorded by modern science on Dec. 20, 2021. For days, the submarine volcano released sulfur dioxide, ash, and steam several miles into the air.