Rare sonar mapping—conducted before and after an undersea volcano erupted off the coast of Tonga in 2022—has uncovered the unique reasons for its deadly tsunami.

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 ...

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 ...

The blast sent an eruption column more than 34 miles high.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha'apai-volcanic eruption on 15 january 2022. Image taken from a video of the eruption. (CREDIT: Tonga ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A massive volcano eruption seen from space The Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai eruption in January 2022 was one of the biggest volcanic ...

Understanding how waves produced by volcanic eruption can enter the atmosphere has implications for both satellite safety and weather forecasting. When the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano blasted ...

When the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano erupted in January 2022, it sent a giant plume of ash and gases about 56 kilometers into the sky—the highest eruption ever recorded. This undersea volcano, ...

Krakatau, a volcanic island in Indonesia, killed more than 30,000 people when it erupted in 1883. One might assume that volcanic debris posed the major threat, yet many of the victims died from a ...

The eruption of Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai (HTHH) in January 2022 ejected about 2.9 billion tons of volcanic material into the atmosphere and across the South Pacific. In early 2022, a scientific ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The 2022 eruption of the Hunga Tonga volcano may have been triggered by ...

Charlotte Lytton and Matthew Abbott traveled to Tonga to report this story. All photographs were made in May 2023. Sept. 1 at 6:00 a.m. Warning: This graphic requires ...