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Satellite images show the moment an undersea volcano in the Pacific nation of Tonga erupted and triggered a tsunami, which damaged the archipelago’s coastline. Many homes were destroyed and vast ...

Credit: NASA The Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcanic island that erupted in ... that the island was almost entirely destroyed, with satellite images taken in the aftermath shown only a small ...

Hunga Tonga volcano event occurred in the South Pacific ... this massive event was documented using various monitoring ...

Satellite images suggest some outlying islands have been completely submerged by seawater. Experts say the eruption of the Hunga-Tonga Hunga-Ha'apai volcano is one of the most violent in the ...

Then, a roar from below the water. The towering undersea volcano known as Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha‘apai had awakened, and on a balmy afternoon in January 2022 it began blasting its insides into the ...

Shock waves triggered by a massive underwater volcanic eruption ... s Himawari weather satellite. An approximately 2-hectopascal increase in atmospheric pressure from Tonga toward Japan was ...

Historically, large volcanic eruptions like ... of continued investment in satellite-based stratospheric measurements. "Our understanding of the Hunga Tonga eruption is largely thanks to the ...

The Hunga Tonga underwater volcano was one of the largest volcanic ... Luckily, we had multiple ways to record the event, ...

An curved arrow pointing right. An underwater volcanic eruption has contaminated water, destroyed homes, and cut off communication in Tonga. The scale of damage is still unknown. More from News An ...

An underwater volcano near the South Pacific island nation of Tonga erupted on January 15. The eruption unleashed explosive forces that dwarfed the power of the Hiroshima atomic bomb, Nasa ...