Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A zoomed-in view of the eruption, taken by Japan's Himawari-8 satellite on Jan. 15, 2022, about 100 minutes after the eruption ...

It’s been nearly half a year since the violent eruption of Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha’apai volcano in the southwestern Pacific. It was clear when I wrote about this eruption in January that something ...

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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In Roland Emmerich’s 2012 (streaming now on Peacock!) the world runs head on into a catastrophic apocalypse, complete with ...

On the short-lived island of Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha'apai, researchers discovered a unique microbial community that metabolizes sulfur and atmospheric gases, similar to organisms found in deep sea vents ...

The ancient Tongan phrase for tsunami is peau kula, which translates to red wave. The deeper meaning of the words became clear to Taaniela Kula, the head of Tonga’s Geological Services, when he ...

The violent eruption of Tonga's Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano on Jan. 15, 2022, injected an unprecedented amount of water directly into the stratosphere - enough to fill more than 58,000 ...

On January 15, 2022, an underwater volcano erupted near the small island of Hunga-Tonga-Hunga-Ha'apai. Not only did it send atmospheric shock waves, sonic booms and tsunami waves all around the world, ...

When the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano erupted in Tonga in January 2022, it became the largest eruption ever recorded with modern technology. The blast, estimated to be hundreds of times stronger ...

In this satellite image taken by Himawari-8, a Japanese weather satellite, and released by the agency, shows an undersea volcano eruption at the Pacific nation of Tonga on Saturday. (Japan Meteorology ...

A new analysis confirmed past suspicions based on where the volcano was situated and the aerosols it spewed. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

The island was destroyed by the same volcano that formed it seven years before. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. An island near ...