Three people lost their lives in the disaster, and major damage was caused to infrastructure and crops in the surrounding islands.

It's been nearly four years since a massive volcanic explosion rocked the Pacific nation of Tonga. The eruption created a huge plume of ash and water that stretched more than halfway to space. HPR's ...

The Hunga Tonga Mystery That Wasn't When the Hunga Tonga volcano erupted underwater in January 2022, it felt like witnessing something unprecedented. The submarine volcano introduced an unprecedented ...

January 2026The international APARC report on the Hunga volcanic eruption in 2022 provides new insights into the extent to which individual extreme ...

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 ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — The tsunami threat around the Pacific from a huge undersea volcanic eruption has begun to recede, while the extent of damage to Tonga remains unclear. The eruption on ...

The eruption The explosive eruption of Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha'apai volcano, in the Kingdom of Tonga and about 6,000 miles from Alaska, occurred on Jan. 15, 2022. The eruption's atmospheric waves were ...

NEW YORK (AP) — When an undersea volcano erupted in Tonga in January, its watery blast was huge and unusual — and scientists are still trying to understand its impacts. The volcano, known as Hunga ...

A new UCLA-led study shows that the 2022 eruption of underwater volcano Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai did not warm the planet as was expected but actually reduced temperatures over the Southern Hemisphere ...