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 ...

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Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai (Hunga Tonga for short) erupted on January 15 2022 in the Pacific Kingdom of Tonga. It created a tsunami which triggered warnings across the entire Pacific basin, and sent ...

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

New research from a collaborative team featuring Texas A&M University atmospheric scientist Dr. Andrew Dessler is exploring the climate impact of the 2022 Hunga Tonga volcano eruption and challenging ...

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 the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano erupted on Jan. 15, 2022, it sent atmospheric shock waves, sonic booms, and tsunami waves around the world. Now, scientists are finding the volcano’s effects ...

A Dec. 19, 2023, Facebook post (direct link, archive link) shows a person talking about the 2022 eruption of Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai, an underwater volcano in the South Pacific Ocean. "When the ...

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 ...

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 ...

The eruption of Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai produced one of the most extreme lightning storms ever and it has given scientists a unique glimpse into the volcano's secrets. Peeking out of the South ...