A HUGE 7.1-magnitude earthquake has hit near Tonga and Niue in the Pacific Ocean and prompted a tsunami warning. The US ...

A 2022 satellite photo shows smoke rising from a caldera on Tofua, highlighting the "looming threat" of the volcanic island.

the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano began a gigantic eruption that would go on to peak in ferocity the next day. The uninhabited island volcano would quickly make headlines as the country of ...

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 ...

For two years, scientists were perplexed by what could have triggered the 2022 Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha'apai volcano ... as high as 45 meters at nearby islands. Using seismic waveform modeling ...

Tonga was rocked by the eruption of the Hunga Tonga volcano in 2022, covering the most populated islands in ash. The eruption resulted in Earth's the largest atmospheric explosion on modern record ...

This speck rose from the sea in January between two established uninhabited volcanic islands - Hunga Tonga and Hunga Ha'apai - joining them together into one larger land mass. The island was ...

Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano ... It is a country in the southwest Pacific consisting of more than 170 small islands.

Despite this, new islands formed by eruptions offer habitats for pioneer species, which can in turn attract other forms of life. These processes illustrate nature's ability to regenerate and adapt, ...