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 ...

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

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 ...

The eruption of undersea volcano Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai, and a tsunami wave, blanketed Tonga's islands in volcanic ash. It's posing a serious health risk and contaminating water supplies.

In 2014, a massive eruption formed the new island of Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai. But there's something about this island that has scientists stumped. Following is a transcript of the video.

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 ...

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 ...

Tonga was hammered by the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano that erupted in 2022, covering the most populated islands in ash. The eruption left a crater in the seabed and produced Earth's biggest ...