An underwater volcano erupted on January 15, 2022, near the island nation of Tonga, engulfing the region in ash and leading a tsunami to hit the country's largest island, Tongatapu. At least three ...

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 ...

The Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano, located near Tonga in the South Pacific, violently erupted on January 15, 2022 and released enough ash and gas to cover an area of 157,000 square kilometres, ...

On Jan 15, the Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha’apai volcano, a mostly submerged volcano located about 60km northwest of Tonga in the southwest Pacific, erupted. This created a cloud about 400km in diameter — ...

Tsunami warnings are in force across the entire Pacific island of Tonga as well as Fiji following a devastating volcanic shockwave. Terrifying satellite footage shows the moment the underwater Hunga ...

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 ...

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 ...

On the morning of Jan. 15 (GMT), there was a massive eruption of an underwater volcano in the waters off Tonga, producing a plume over 16,000 meters high. Shock waves from the eruption, which experts ...

The first death from a massive underwater volcanic blast near the Pacific island nation of Tonga has been confirmed, as the extent of the damage remained unknown Monday. Tonga remained virtually cut ...