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Record-smashing Tonga volcano sheds new light on how underwater volcanoes blow

CBC
Fresh volatile-rich magma triggered a chain reaction of explosions that led to the loudest, highest and most destructive underwater volcano...
8 months ago

Undersea volcanic eruption off the coast of Tonga impacted space beyond the Earth's atmosphere: holes in the ionosphere revealed by Arase satellite observations

JAXA 宇宙科学研究所
Recent ground-based and satellite observations have revealed that the eruption affected the upper atmosphere, including the thermosphere and ionosphere.
16 months ago

Tonga volcano eruption yields insights into asteroid impacts on Earth

Space.com
The Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano erupted off the coast of Tonga in the South Pacific Ocean, generating a tsunami and triggering resulting wave action...
31 months ago

Understanding a unique tsunami event caused by the Tonga volcano eruption

NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (.gov)
On January 15, 2022, the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano erupted off the coast of Tonga in the South Pacific Ocean, generating a tsunami and triggering...
32 months ago

Earthquake strikes off Tonga¢s coast days after volcanic eruption

Al Jazeera
Magnitude 6.2 quake hits almost two weeks after Tonga was devastated by a volcanic eruption and tsunami.
32 months ago

Tonga¢s volcano blast cut it off from the world. Here¢s what it will take to get it reconnected.

MIT Technology Review
The world is anxiously awaiting news from the island—but on top of the physical destruction, the eruption has disconnected it from the...
32 months ago

EXPLAINER: Scientists Struggle to Monitor Tonga Volcano After Massive Eruption

Voice of America
The eruption of Hunga-Tonga-Hunga-Ha'apai volcano sent tsunami waves across the Pacific Ocean and was heard some 2300 kms (1430 miles) away...
32 months ago

Tsunami caused by Tonga volcano eruption stumps Japan weather experts

Kyodo News+ | Japan's leading news agency.
The eruption of an underwater volcano off Tonga on Saturday that caused tsunami waves of up to around 1 meter to hit parts of Japan's coast stumped weather...
32 months ago

Why the Tonga volcano cued tsunami warnings for the North American Pacific coast

The Conversation
The warning was issued after the eruption of the Hunga-Tonga-Hunga-Ha'apai volcano in Tonga in the Southwest Pacific.
32 months ago

Drawing disaster-preparedness lessons from Tonga¢s volcano

PreventionWeb
The massive volcanic eruption off the coast of Tonga on 15 January produced a blast hundreds of times the strength of the Hiroshima nuclear explosion.
32 months ago